DOFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does doff mean? 

• DOFF (verb)
  The verb DOFF has 1 sense:

1. remove

  Familiarity information: DOFF used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOFF (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they doff    ... he / she / it doffs   
Past simple: doffed   
Past participle: doffed   
-ing form: doffing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

He doffed his hat

Hypernyms (to "doff" is one way to...):

take off (remove clothes)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

“Welcome, most puissant and noble lord,” he cried, doffing his bonnet to Black Simon.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had but to drink the cup, to doff at once the body of the noted professor, and to assume, like a thick cloak, that of Edward Hyde.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Again I looked at the face; which was no longer turned from me—on the contrary, the bonnet was doffed, the bandage displaced, the head advanced.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

With doffed caps and eager hands, the comrades took their new and precious possessions, and pressed onwards upon their journey, leaving the aged palmer still seated under the cherry-tree.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It would be well that you should doff camail and greaves, Sir Nigel, for, by the black rood! it is like enough that we shall have to swim for it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The archers doffed caps at the sight of it, and the bailiff crossed himself devoutly as he handed it to the robber.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From time to time an elderly man in black with rounded shoulders and a long white wand in his hand came softly forth from this inner room, and beckoned to one or other of the company, who doffed cap and followed him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Doff, dog, doff, he hissed, when a monarch deigns to lower his eyes to such as you!—then spurred through the underwood and was gone, with a gleam of steel shoes and flutter of dead leaves.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He held up two fingers as he passed, with a Benedic, fili mi! whereat Alleyne doffed hat and bent knee, looking with much reverence at one who had devoted his life to the overthrow of the infidel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Alleyne bent knee and doffed hat at the sight of the open door; but ere he had finished an ave his comrades were out of sight round the curve of the path, and he had to run to overtake them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)