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doff•er
(dof′ər, dô′fər),USA pronunciation n.
- a person or thing that doffs.
- Textiles
- a wire-clothed roller on a carding machine, esp. the roller to which the carded fibers are transferred from the cylinder and then prepared for conversion into sliver.
- any roller that removes the fibers from another roller.
- doff + -er1 1815–25