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Stringer   /strˈɪŋər/   Listen
noun
Stringer  n.  
1.
One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows. "Be content to put your trust in honest stringers."
2.
A libertine; a wencher. (Obs.)
3.
(Railroad) A longitudinal sleeper.
4.
(Shipbuilding) A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.
5.
(Carp.) A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like.
6.
(Newspapers) A reporter or correspondent who works for a news agency on a part-time basis, especially one covering local news for a newspaper published in a different area; called also string correspondent.
7.
(Aviation) A longitudinal supporting structure to reinforce the skin of an airplane fuselage.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Stringer" Quotes from Famous Books



... pressure. As an illustration of how materials may become highly heated when forced to move particle on particle, it may be well to cite the case in which the iron stringpiece on top of a wooden dam near Holyoke, Mass., was affected when the barrier went away in a flood. The iron stringer, being very well put together, was, it is said, drawn out by the strain until it became sensibly reddened by the motion of its particles, and finally fell hissing into the waters below. A like heating is observable when metal is ...
— Outlines of the Earth's History - A Popular Study in Physiography • Nathaniel Southgate Shaler



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