doffer (plural doffers)
(textile manufacturing) A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton or fiber from the cards.
A worker who replaces full bobbins by empty ones on the throstle or ring frames.
• fforde, offer'd, offred
Source: Wiktionary
Doff"er, n. (Mach.)
Definition: A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards. Ure.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 December 2024
(adjective) restricted to a particular condition of life; “an obligate anaerobe can survive only in the absence of oxygen”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
