Stemmer

[stemә]

(noun.) a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples).

(noun.) a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge.

(noun.) an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem.

(noun.) a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers.

Checked by Bertrand--From WordNet

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

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