Stemmer

Stem´mer

n.

1.

One who, or that which, stems (in any of the senses of the verbs).

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	stemmer - a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books sprigger, stripper worker - a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker"
	2.	stemmer - a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers worker - a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker"
	3.	stemmer - an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem stemming algorithm algorithm, algorithmic program, algorithmic rule - a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem
	4.	stemmer - a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge tamp, tamper, tamping bar - a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
	5.	stemmer - a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples) device - an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose; "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"; "a device intended to conserve water"