Noun stemmer has 5 senses
  1. stripper, stemmer, sprigger - a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books
    --1 is a kind of worker
  2. stemmer - a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers
    --2 is a kind of
    worker
  3. stemmer, stemming algorithm - an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem
    --3 is a kind of algorithm, algorithmic rule, algorithmic program
    Derived form: verb stem4
  4. stemmer - a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge
    --4 is a kind of
    tamp, tamper, tamping bar
  5. stemmer - a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples)
    --5 is a kind of
    device
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