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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.

An algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem.

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Examples for "stripper"
Examples for "stripper"
1
I didn't want to help her become a better stripper at all.
How to make love like a porn star
2
How many followers did Zola have before her stripper story went viral?
Ebony
3
I asked, Wasn't that the name of some famous stripper, Peaches Galore?
Lit: a memoir
4
She'd have to go back to the stripper pole and escort jobs.
Phoenix noir
5
Never eat food that's also a stripper's name: Cookie, Candy, Cupcake .
Skinny italian: eat it and enjoy it
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
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His body was found some hours afterwards, hanging in a woods near Stemmer's Run.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920
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These were stemmers, it was learned.
V. V.'s Eyes
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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