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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
doff       [dof, dawf] Pronunciation Key
–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.
[Origin: 1300–50; ME, contr. of do off; cf. don1]
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
doff       (dôf, dŏf)  Pronunciation Key 
tr.v.   doffed, doff·ing, doffs
  1. To take off; remove: doff one's clothes.
  2. To tip or remove (one's hat) in salutation.
  3. To put aside; discard.


[Middle English doffen, from don off, to do off : don, to do; see do1 + off, off; see off.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
doff 
c.1350, 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.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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doff

verb
remove; "He doffed his hat" 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Doff

Doff\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Doffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Doffing.] [Do + off. See Do, v. t., 7.]

1. To put off, as dress; to divest one's self of; hence, figuratively, to put or thrust away; to rid one's self of.

And made us doff our easy robes of peace. -- Shak.

At night, or in the rain, He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn. -- Emerson.

2. To strip; to divest; to undress.

Heaven's King, who doffs himself our flesh to wear. -- Crashaw.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Doff

Doff\, v. i. To put off dress; to take off the hat.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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