stringer
Meaning
- Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
- Someone who strings someone along.
- A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel.
- The side rail supporting the rungs of a ladder or the steps of a flight of stairs.
- A small screw-hook to which piano strings are sometimes attached.
- 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.
- A person who plays on a particular string.
- Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength.
- (slang) A hard-hit ball.
- A cord or chain, sometimes with additional loops, that is threaded through the mouth and gills of caught fish.
- 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.
- (obsolete) A libertine; a wencher.
- 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.
Synonyms
lode
longitudinal beam
string-board
mineral vein
news reporter
distance bar
longitudinal girder
wind brace
cleck rod
longitudinal runner
fore-and-aft beam
longn
longitudinal bearer
pulsus parvus
Translations
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/stɹɪŋə/
Etymology
From string + -er.
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