Reference meaning
stemmer
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a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books
Related source terms
strippersprigger
Other meanings
2. noun
a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers
3. noun
an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem
4. noun
a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge
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