coffers

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Some 22,000 mule-spinners, loom-fixers, weavers, carders, slasher-tenders, fram-spinners and doffers, warp-dressers, beamers and twisters had lost about $4,000,000 in wages and the mills had lost some $1,820,000 in idle overhead.

From Time Magazine Archive

The fibres are brushed off the spindles by "doffers."

From Time Magazine Archive

These men were both former doffers at one of the mills.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

The work is lightened for her by the fact that whereas she formerly placed the bobbins on the warp, doffers now do this for her.

From Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls by Clark, Sue Ainslie

It was the home of John Corbin, and Willis, his ten-year-old son, was one of the main doffers.

From The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by Moore, John Trotwood