stemmer
Nouns
- (n) a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books sprigger, stripper,
- (n) a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers
- (n) an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem stemming algorithm,
- (n) a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge
- (n) a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples)