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verb (used with object)
1.
to remove or take off, as clothing.
2.
to remove or tip (the hat), as in greeting.
3.
to throw off; get rid of: Doff your stupid ideas and join our side!
4.
Textiles.
a.
to strip (carded fiber) from a carding machine.
b.
to remove (full bobbins, material, etc.) from a textile machine.
noun
5.
Textiles.
a.
the act of removing bobbins, material, etc., and stripping fibers from a textile machine.
b.
the material so doffed.
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doff
mid-14c., contraction of do off, preserving the original sense of do as "put." At the time of Johnson's Dictionary [1755] the word was "obsolete, and rarely used except by rustics," but it was saved from extinction (along with don) by Sir Walter Scott. Related: Doffed; doffing.
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