Crossword-Solution: DOFFERS
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AMEEZC
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eruption
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Sentences with DOFFERS (5)
Last of all they kept sober company with two or three lame persons and a cheerful delayed little group of new doffers, the children who minded bobbins in the weave-room and who were young enough to be tired and even timid.
One of these doffers, a pale, pleasant-looking child, was all fluffy with cotton that had clung to her little dark plaid dress.
Besides all these, the factories employ numbers of children--doffers--for mounting and taking down bobbins, and a few men as overlookers, a mechanic and an engineer for the steam-engines, carpenters, porters, etc.; but the actual work of the mills is done by women and children.
Children as small as can be held to be consistent with the assumption of their thirteen years are preferred, their work as "doffers" or spool-changers requiring small quick hands.
GOOD SELVAGES--Both Cylinders and Doffers are clothed to the extreme edges, which prevents ragged selvages.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1990).