doff

To remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried).

[…] Calidore perceiuing, thought it beſt / To chaunge the manner of his loftie looke; / And doffing his bright armes, himſelfe addreſt / In ſhepheards vveed, and in his hand he tooke, / In ſtead of ſteelehead ſpeare, a ſhepheards hooke, […]

Thou vveare a Lyons hide, doff it for ſhame, / And hang a Calues skin on thoſe recreant limbes.

To remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried).

The rustics doffed their hats at the clergy.

[H]is courtesy to show, / He doffed, to Marmion bending low, / His broidered cap and plume.

To undress (oneself); to divest, to strip.

VVhy art thou troubled Herod? vvhat vaine feare / Thy blood-revolving Breſt to rage doth move? / Heavens King, vvho doffs himſelfe vveake fleſh to vveare, / Comes not to rule in vvrath, but ſerve in love.

To cast aside or get rid of (something), to throw off.

Doff that stupid idea: it will never work.

[…] Romeo doffe thy name, / And for thy name vvhich is no part of thee, / Take all my ſelfe.

To remove (a bobbin or spindle which is full of spun yarn) from a spinning frame for replacement with an empty one.

Followed by off: an act of putting off or turning away someone with an excuse, etc.

Faith, Lelia has een giuen him the doff off here, and has made hir father almoſt ſtarke mad.