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stemmer

stem·mer

US/ˈstɛmɜr/ uncommon

noun

1.

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

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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

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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)

Origin

From stem + -er.

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