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Stemmer   /stˈɛmər/   Listen
Stemmer

noun
1.
A worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books.  Synonyms: sprigger, stripper.
2.
A worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers.
3.
An algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem.  Synonym: stemming algorithm.
4.
A miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge.
5.
A device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples).






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"Stemmer" Quotes from Famous Books



... cut off to make the offices. Negroes worked here; negro men, mostly wearing red undershirts. They sat in long rows, with quick fingers stripping the stems from the not unfragrant leaves. These were stemmers, it was learned. Piles of the brown tobacco stood beside each stemmer, bales of it were stacked, ceiling-high, at the farther end of the room, awaiting their attentions. The negroes eyed the visitors respectfully. They were heard to laugh and joke over their labors. If they knew of anything homicidal in their lot, ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... Negroes worked here; negro men, mostly wearing red undershirts. They sat in long rows, with quick fingers stripping the stems from the not unfragrant leaves. These were stemmers, it was learned. Piles of the brown tobacco stood beside each stemmer, bales of it were stacked, ceiling-high, at the farther end of the room, awaiting their attentions. The negroes eyed the visitors respectfully. They were heard to laugh and joke over their labors. If they knew of ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... special machines designed for that purpose, which leaves the fruit in a bright, clean condition attractive to purchasers. These machines are at present built only by James Porteous, Fresno, and are operated either by hand or power. The cost of a stemmer and cleaner complete is $80, f. o. b. cars at Fresno. Where several producers can do so, it would be advisable to club together and get the machine in this way. Much extra expense could be avoided and one set of machinery would serve ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 • Various

... Iphition: him the chariots of the Achaians clave with their tires asunder in the forefront of the battle, and over him Achilles pierced in the temples, through his bronze-cheeked helmet, Demoleon, brave stemmer of battle, Antenor's son. No stop made the bronze helmet, but therethrough sped the spear-head and clave the bone, and the brain within was all scattered: that stroke made ending of his zeal. Then Hippodamas, as he leapt ...
— The Iliad of Homer • Homer (Lang, Leaf, Myers trans.)

... done by special machines designed for that purpose, which leaves the fruit in a bright, clean condition attractive to purchasers. These machines are at present built only by James Porteous, Fresno, and are operated either by hand or power. The cost of a stemmer and cleaner complete is $80, f. o. b. cars at Fresno. Where several producers can do so, it would be advisable to club together and get the machine in this way. Much extra expense could be avoided and one set of machinery ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 • Various



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