As she stepped in from the snow, he helped her doff her hat and coat. From LearnThat.org.
"doff" it is. actually, why don't i just add that to the "don" entry, since it's essentially the same thing?. From Wordnik.com. [Strunk and Light Addendum] Reference
But would doff his cap, his heart to heaven raise. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919] Reference
Did he doff his hat at the statue of Lee, as some say?. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Virginius Dabney, July 31, 1975. Interview A-0311-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Without slaying Dhrishtadyumna I shall not doff my armour. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
"You asked me to doff my cap, so I-- doffed my discipline.". From Wordnik.com. [The Tin Soldier] Reference
Doffers come doff — take a full bobbin, put it on others. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Naomi Sizemore Trammel, March 25, 1980. Interview H-0258. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Them young boys could doff like everything, you wouldn't —. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Naomi Sizemore Trammel, March 25, 1980. Interview H-0258. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
That's reet; naa then, doff that coite, and hev a soup o 'tay. From Wordnik.com. [Lancashire Idylls (1898)] Reference
When they'd stop 'em to doff 'em — they had doffers in there. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Alice P. Evitt, July 18, 1979. Interview H-0162. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
"She can also doff her clothing when she wants to," he replied. From Wordnik.com. [Harpy Thyme]
I learned to wind, and I learned to spin, and I learned to doff. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Frank Durham, September 10 and 17, 1979. Interview H-0067. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
But Connery was also one of the first superstars to doff his top. From Wordnik.com. [Brooks Peters: Why Toupees are Tops!] Reference
He'd bear down the frames, and each boy'd doff half a frame a piece. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Jessie Lee Carter, May 5, 1980. Interview H-0237. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
He scarce had need to doff his pride or slough the dross of the Earth —. From Wordnik.com. [stormtiger Diary Entry] Reference
We had to doff and creel, and we couldn't do that and run all them frames. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Alice P. Evitt, July 18, 1979. Interview H-0162. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Crews even went so far as to doff his shirt in the middle of the trading floor. From Wordnik.com. ['The Expendables' Visit NYSE, Terry Crews Goes Shirtless] Reference
Every time they'd pick up her doff and weigh it they'd put it down to her name. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Frank Durham, September 10 and 17, 1979. Interview H-0067. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
And when he came to get my doff, he went to his wife and got her measuring stick. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Louise Riggsbee Jones, October 13, 1976. Interview H-0085-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
The ploughmen stopped to doff their hats, the women to bend their heads in prayer. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
And after he treated me like he did, I decided I was going to get him another doff. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Louise Riggsbee Jones, October 13, 1976. Interview H-0085-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
In the fields, the corn-gatherers pause to doff their hats and smile their welcome. From Wordnik.com. [Plantation Sketches] Reference
I learned how to don and doff my spacesuit even while wearing a gas mask against fire. From Wordnik.com. [From CEO to Space Tourist] Reference
Kirby did not have a hat to doff, but his bow in the saddle was as graceful as Drew's. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
And I had him a doff lying up there as I took off just before six o'clock that night, too. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Louise Riggsbee Jones, October 13, 1976. Interview H-0085-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
The crutches came to a standstill; the cripple's hand went up to doff a ragged worsted cap. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
When you went back to work, did you have to doff any cloth yourself, take the rolls off then?. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Paul and Pauline Griffith, May 30, 1980. Interview H-0247. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
She believes in the social niceties, and having a hat to doff will help ingratiate you to her. From Wordnik.com. [Stones] Reference
Well, they seen I could doff, and I could make a little more doffing, so he put me on that job. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Eula and Vernon Durham, November 29, 1978. Interview H-0064. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Putting forth my prowess in battle and slaying all the Panchalas, I will doff my armour, O king!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
I have no desire to see them, at the end of the day, doff their working dress, that they may play. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
They had a few doffers that if they wanted to go home pretty early, they would doff them half full. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Carrie Lee Gerringer, August 11, 1979. Interview H-0077. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
And they had a twister there that made the selvage yarn for the cloth, and I learned to run it and doff. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Murphy Yomen Sigmon, July 27, 1979. Interview H-0142. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
He would get out and whistle them up; about fifteen, twenty minutes before doff time, he'd go hunting his doffers up. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Murphy Yomen Sigmon, July 27, 1979. Interview H-0142. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
The time has come for Israel to doff it's halo and get down to the nasty bussiness of exposing the ugly truth about its enemies. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
If she can provide us with positive proof I am prepared to doff my hat and say thank you Verity - at the moment I don't have one. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
I knew that day that something was going to be about ready for me to doff at six o'clock that night, to have one on top of the winder. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Louise Riggsbee Jones, October 13, 1976. Interview H-0085-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
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