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Meanings of stemmer in English

A worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books.

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              Usage of stemmer in English
              1
              The master stemmer can find rests where most people cannot.
              Rock and Ice Magazine
              2
              The cost of a stemmer and cleaner complete is $80, f. o. b. cars at Fresno.
              Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889
              3
              Dick Savage, twenty, the baker's apprentice; Will Joyce, twenty-two, journeyman blacksmith; and Henry Taylor, twenty-four, tobacco-stemmer-werethe other three.
              What Is Man? and Other Essays
              4
              Raisins of the third class are sent to the stemmer and a large proportion of them then go to the seeder.
              History of California
              5
              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.
              V. V.'s Eyes
              6
              His body was found some hours afterwards, hanging in a woods near Stemmer's Run.
              The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920
              7
              These were stemmers, it was learned.
              V. V.'s Eyes
              8
              Perhaps a quarter of the whole length of the room was prosaically filled with piled tobacco stored ready for the two floors of stemmers.
              V. V.'s Eyes
              Stemmer through the time