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👷 A bobbin worker 🧵 A yarn remover
doffer

doffer

9.9
A machine that removes full bobbins or yarn from spinning machines
  • noun
  • Archaic
: desbobinador
  • The doffer efficiently removes full bobbins from the spinning machine.

Examples

  • Modern spinning mills often use an automatic doffer to handle full bobbins quickly.

  • A skilled technician checked the doffer to ensure it was operating smoothly.

  • The factory installed a new doffer to improve the efficiency of yarn removal.

  • In the mill, a doffer is essential for production.

  • The factory installed a new doffer to improve the efficiency of yarn removal.

  • A skilled technician checked the doffer to ensure it was operating smoothly.

  • Modern spinning mills often use an automatic doffer to handle full bobbins quickly.

Surface Forms

doffer singular
doffers plural

Morphology

doffer = doff (transparent) = doff + er

Formed by the productive agent/instrument suffix '-er' added to the verb 'doff', so the meaning 'one or something that doffs' is directly inferable.

Etymology

Doffer comes from the simple phrase do off, which means 'take off' or remove, and you can see doff in the phrase 'doff your hat'. So a doffer is a machine that 'takes off' finished yarn or full bobbins from spinning machines, which is why it has that name.