stemmer

noun

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

Similar word(s): sprigger, stripper

Definition categories: person, worker

2. a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers

Definition categories: person, worker

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

Definition categories: thought, algorithm

4. a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge

Definition categories: man–made, tamp, tamper

5. a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples)

Definition categories: man–made, device