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stringer

noun
/stɹɪŋə/UK/stɹɪŋɚ/CA

Etymology

From string + -er.

  1. derived from *strengʰ-✻ — “rope, cord, strand; to tighten”
  2. inherited from *strangiz✻ — “string”
  3. inherited from *strangi✻
  4. inherited from strenġ
  5. inherited from string
  6. suffixed as stringer — “string + er”

Definitions

  1. Someone who threads something

    Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.

    • Be content to put your trust in honest stringers.

  2. Someone who strings someone along.

  3. 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.
  4. ›+ 12 more definitions

    1. The side rail supporting the rungs of a ladder or the steps of a flight of stairs.

    2. A small screw-hook to which piano strings are sometimes attached.

    3. A freelance correspondent not on the regular newspaper staff, especially one retained on…

      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.

    4. A person who plays on a particular string.

    5. Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength.

    6. A hard-hit ball.

    7. A cord or chain, sometimes with additional loops, that is threaded through the mouth and…

      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.

    8. A pallet or skid used when shipping less than truckload (LTL) freight. A platform…

      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.

    9. A libertine

      A libertine; a wencher.

      • A whoreson tyrant! He has been an old stringer in's days

    10. A person who deliberately states that a certain bird is present when it is not

      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.

    11. A surname originating as an occupation for a stringer.

    12. An unincorporated community in Jasper County, Mississippi, United States, named after a…

      An unincorporated community in Jasper County, Mississippi, United States, named after a postmaster.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at stringer. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at stringer. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at stringer

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA