Dictionary Check: stemmer

"stemmer" is a valid word!

Scrabble 11 points
Words with Friends 13 points

Definition

noun

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

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a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers

noun

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

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noun

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

noun

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

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