Prosciutto Recipes: Many Ways With The Italian Ham. Prosciutto, that amazing Italian ham, is great for eating just on its own. But if you've ever once tried it in a recipe, you know how much flavor it can add. That salty savoriness is a great tool in the kitchen.
Doffer boys in Aragon Mills, Rock Hill, South Carolina, photographed by Lewis Hine on 13 May 1912. A doffer is someone who removes (doffs) 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.
Historical Examples. 1  The large runner and the doffer require to be cleaned together. 2  She saw what it meant to be a doffer, a reeler, a silk-twister. 3  The doffer comb, a serrated metal plate the length of the rollers, removes the carded fibers from the last roller or doffer. The Scholfield Wool-Carding Machines Grace L. Rogers doffer, dofâ²Är, n. the part of a carding-machine which strips the cotton from the cylinder when carded. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) Various Having passed the flats, the cotton is deposited by the cylinder on what is termed the doffer. The Story of the Cotton Plant Frederick Wilkinson The tow is then removed from the brush by a doffer roller, from which it is finally removed by a doffing knife.