Cotton vs. Doffer

A plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.

Gossypium, a genus of plant used as a source of cotton fiber.

(textiles) The textile made from the fiber harvested from the cotton plant.

(countable) An item of clothing made from cotton.

Made of cotton.

To get on with someone or something; to have a good relationship with someone.

A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.

The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.

Cloth made of cotton.

To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.

Example: ‘It cottons well; it can not choose but bearA pretty nap.’;

To go on prosperously; to succeed.

Example: ‘New, Hephestion, does not this matter cotton as I would?’;

To unite; to agree; to make friends; - usually followed by with.

Example: ‘A quarrel will end in one of you being turned off, in which case it will not be easy to cotton with another.’; ‘Didst see, Frank, how the old goldsmith cottoned in with his beggarly companion?’;

To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; - used with to.

silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state

fabric woven from cotton fibers

erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers

thread made of cotton fibers

take a liking to;

Example: ‘cotton to something’;

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose.

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.

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

A worker who replaces full bobbins by empty ones on the throstle or ring frames.

A doffer is someone who removes () bobbins, pirns or spindles holding spun fiber such as cotton or wool from a spinning frame and replaces them with empty ones. Historically, spinners, doffers, and sweepers each had separate tasks that were required in the manufacture of spun textiles.

Example: ‘doffs’;