doff

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried).

   “[…] Calidore perceiuing, thought it beſt / To chaunge the manner of his loftie looke; / And doffing his bright armes, himſelfe addreſt / In ſhepheards vveed, and in his hand he tooke, / In ſtead of ſteelehead ſpeare, a ſhepheards hooke, […]”

2. fiil To remove or tip (a hat or other headwear) in greeting or salutation, or as a mark of respect.

   “The rustics doffed their hats at the clergy.”

3. fiil To undress (oneself); to divest, to strip.

   “VVhy art thou troubled Herod? vvhat vaine feare / Thy blood-revolving Breſt to rage doth move? / Heavens King, vvho doffs himſelfe vveake fleſh to vveare, / Comes not to rule in vvrath, but ſerve in love.”

4. fiil To cast aside or get rid of (something), to throw off.

   “Doff that stupid idea: it will never work.”

5. fiil To remove (a bobbin or spindle which is full of spun yarn) from a spinning frame for replacement with an empty one.
6. fiil To remove (small pieces of cotton or other plant fibre, etc.) from a carding cylinder.
7. fiil To put off or turn away (someone) with an excuse, etc.

   “Euery day, thou dofftſt me, vvith ſome deuiſe Iago; / And rather, as it ſeemes to me, thou keepeſt from me, / All conueniency, then ſupplieſt me, vvith the leaſt / Aduantage of hope: […]”

8. fiil To remove or tip a hat or other headwear in greeting or salutation, or as a mark of respect.

   “And [the goose] feeding high, and living soft, / Grew plump and able-bodied; / Until the grave churchwarden doff'd, / The parson smirk'd and nodded.”

9. fiil Followed by with: to remove or take off something worn on the body, or something carried.

   “VVhy, look'ye, Major Sturgeon, I don't much care for your poppers and ſharpes, becauſe vvhy, they are out of my vvay; but if you vvill doff vvith your boots, and box a couple of bouts.”

10. isim Followed by off: an act of putting off or turning away someone with an excuse, etc.

    “Faith, Lelia has een giuen him the doff off here, and has made hir father almoſt ſtarke mad.”