STEMMER

Definition

1. noun a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books. — synonyms: stripper, sprigger
2. noun a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers.
3. noun an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem. — synonyms: stemming_algorithm
4. noun a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge.
5. noun a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples).