stringer
a person or thing that strings.
a long horizontal timber connecting upright posts.
Architecture. string (def. 15b).
Civil Engineering. a longitudinal bridge girder for supporting part of a deck or railroad track between bents or piers.
a longitudinal reinforcement in the fuselage or wing of an airplane.
Also called string correspondent. Journalism. a part-time newspaper correspondent covering a local area for a paper published elsewhere: The Los Angeles paper has a correspondent in San Francisco but only a stringer in Seattle.: Compare staffer (def. 2).
a contestant, player, or other person ranked according to skill or accomplishment (used in combination): Most of the conductors at the opera house were third-stringers.
Mining. a small vein or seam of ore, coal, etc.
Origin of stringer
1Other words from stringer
- re·string·er, noun
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British Dictionary definitions for stringer
/ (ˈstrɪŋə) /
architect
a long horizontal beam that is used for structural purposes
another name for stringboard
nautical a longitudinal structural brace for strengthening the hull of a vessel
a journalist retained by a newspaper or news service on a part-time basis to cover a particular town or area
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