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Stringer   Listen
noun
Stringer  n.  
1.
One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows. "Be content to put your trust in honest stringers."
2.
A libertine; a wencher. (Obs.)
3.
(Railroad) A longitudinal sleeper.
4.
(Shipbuilding) A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.
5.
(Carp.) A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like.
6.
(Newspapers) A reporter or correspondent who works for a news agency on a part-time basis, especially one covering local news for a newspaper published in a different area; called also string correspondent.
7.
(Aviation) A longitudinal supporting structure to reinforce the skin of an airplane fuselage.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Stringer" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the board with the mallet, and then he got the wedge under and pried. Ruth pulled. Stephen kept hammering and prying, and Ruth held on to all he gained, until they slipped the wedge along gradually, to where the board was nailed again, to the middle joist or stringer. Then a few more vigorous strokes, and a little smart levering, and the nails loosened, and one good wrench lifted it from the inside timber and they slid it out from under ...
— We Girls: A Home Story • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney



Words linked to "Stringer" :   player, second-stringer, participant, team, brace, squad



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