Doffers
reread the passage about the mill girls, then
answer the question.
what did the doffers do?
they repaired broken spinning-frames.
they replaced empty bobbins with full ones,
they replaced full bobbins with empty ones.
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the early millgirls were of different ages.
some were not over ten years old; a few were
in middle life, but the majority were between
the ages of sixteen and twenty-five. the very
young girls were called "doffers”. they
"doffed”, or took off, the full bobbins from the
spinning-frames, and replaced them with
empty ones.
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