doff

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To take off; remove.
• transitive verb To tip or remove (one's hat) in salutation.
• transitive verb To put aside; discard.

from The Century Dictionary.

• 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To put off dress; to take off the hat.
• transitive verb To put off, as dress; to divest one's self of; hence, figuratively, to put or thrust away; to rid one's self of.
• transitive verb To strip; to divest; to undress.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb clothing to remove or take off, especially of clothing
• verb to remove or tip a hat, as in greeting, salutation or as a mark of respect
• verb to get rid of, to throw off

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb remove