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Doff [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To put off, as dress.

2. And made us doff our easy robes of peace.

3. To strip or divest; as, he doffs himself.

4. To put or thrust away; to get rid of.

5. To doff their dire distresses.

6. To put off; to shift off; with a view to delay.

7. Every day thou doffst me with some device.

8. [This word is, I believe, entirely obsolete in discourse, at least in the United States, but is retained in poetry.]

Doff [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To put off dress; to take off the hat.

Doff [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

2. To strip; to divest; to undress.

Doffed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Doffer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards.

Doffing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913