stemmer meaning and definition

STEMMER noun

Definition of stemmer (noun)

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