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Stringer

//stɹɪŋɚ// name, noun, slang

Proper Noun

1
A surname originating as an occupation for a stringer. countable, uncountable
2
An unincorporated community in Jasper County, Mississippi, United States, named after a postmaster. countable, uncountable

Noun

1
Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
"Be content to put your trust in honest stringers."
2
a long horizontal timber to connect uprights wordnet
3
Someone who strings someone along.
4
brace consisting of a longitudinal member to strengthen a fuselage or hull wordnet
5
A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel.
"A startled man looked out the office window and then rushed for the door, but the boys were too quick for him. They were lying behind a wooden stringer in the lot before he even got near the door."

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6
a worker who strings wordnet
7
The side rail supporting the rungs of a ladder or the steps of a flight of stairs.
8
a member of a squad on a team wordnet
9
A small screw-hook to which piano strings are sometimes attached.
10
A freelance correspondent not on the regular newspaper staff, especially one retained on a part-time basis to report on events in a particular place.
"And he told a few stories about time he had spent in New York in the 1950s as a stringer for the Asahi newspapers… about meeting Diana Vreeland and Truman Capote and Judy Holiday."
11
A person who plays on a particular string.
12
Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength.
13
A hard-hit ball. slang
14
A cord or chain, sometimes with additional loops, that is threaded through the mouth and gills of caught fish.
""Okay, that's a keeper," Harold said as he netted the 3-pounder and put him on a stringer over the side of the boat."
15
A pallet or skid used when shipping less than truckload (LTL) freight. A platform typically constructed of timber or plastic designed such that freight may be stacked on top, able to be lifted by a forklift.
16
A libertine; a wencher. obsolete
"A whoreson tyrant! He has been an old stringer in's days"
17
A person who deliberately states that a certain bird is present when it is not; one who knowingly misleads other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity.
"[T]hose fellows know how to spot a stringer at work."

From string + -er.

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