To put or take off, as dress, or any article of dress, especially the hat or cap.To strip; uncover; lay bare.To put or drive off; thrust aside or away.To throw, as something taken off or rejected; put or thrust so as to be out of the way.In textile manufacturing: To strip off, as cotton or wool for spinning from the cards or carding-cylinder, etc. (see doffer); also, to remove or take away, as full bobbins, to make way for empty ones.To mend or piece together, as broken threads.To remove the hat from the head in salutation.