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A long horizontal timber to connect uprights
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stringer
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a member of a squad on a team; "a first stringer"; "a second stringer" a worker who strings; "a stringer of beads" brace consisting of a longitudinal member to strengthen a fuselage or hull a long horizontal timber to connect uprights
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Stringer (pronounced to rhyme with "ringer") is an English occupational surname and occasionally used as a given name . It originally denoted a maker of rope or strings, and especially those for the famous English longbows used for both hunting and war. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stringer \String"er\ (str[i^]ng"[~e]r), n. One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows. Be content to put your trust in honest stringers. --Ascham. A libertine; a wencher. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. (Railroad) A longitudinal sleeper. ...
Usage examples of stringer.
For railway bridges it commonly consists of cross girders, attached to or resting on the main girders, and longitudinal rail girders or stringers carried by the cross girders and directly supporting the sleepers and rails.
Vinod had gone into the Sports Shop, where the dwarf was on friendly terms with the ball boys and the racquet stringers.
As for the ball boys and the racquet stringers, they thought Vinod was cute.
Vinod collected squash-racquet handles from the racquet stringers at the Duckworth Sports Shop.
Sethna disapproved of such violence, and of the Sport Shop racquet stringers who happily provided Vinod with his arsenal of squash-racquet handles.
Only the east side remained unfinished, with three lines of tile in place along the bottom stringers.
Luigi was a spy, or a counterspy, or an operative, or an agent of some strain, or simply a handler or a contact, or maybe a stringer, but he was first and foremost an Italian.
Still, they crisscrossed many stringer routes, and met packtrains and stringer couriers from time to time.
Renouf, who was genuinely fascinated by bomb ketches and very proud of his mortars, regarded 4,000 yards as an acceptable range: the master armourer at Brest had tried out all four mortars at the sea range off Camaret, firing five rounds from each, with the master shipwright in attendance, and going down and inspecting the underdeck stanchions and the stringers after each round was fired.
Europe and the Middle East--our bureau chiefs, correspondents, stringers, fixersasking questions: What have they heard that is fresh or unusual about terrorist activity?
Langstretch ops and stringers, bounty hunters, skip-tracers, informers, stoolies, and such.
A few stringers were in place here and there, she knew, but she felt like the only journalist here who was alive.
He went right around the mountain again three times, and his observations confirmed the disseminated deposit, the ever-present stringers of white in the dark gray rock.
Milling around the open bar were editors, reporters, columnists, one part-time photographer drinking enough for three, stringers from outlying towns, office personnel, adpersons, and the circulation crew.
Duncan was inventing an automatic bean stringer and he only nodded when she told him she would be out for a while.