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doff

  [dof, dawf]
Use doff in a Sentence
–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. don 1
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doff   (dôf, dŏf)   
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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

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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