Meaning

Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows..

Definitions by Sense

1. Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
2. Someone who strings someone along.
3. A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel.
4. (carpentry) The side rail supporting the rungs of a ladder or the steps of a flight of stairs.
5. A small screw-hook to which piano strings are sometimes attached.
6. (journalism) A freelance correspondent not on the regular newspaper staff, especially one retained on a part-time basis to report on events in a particular place.
7. (sports) A person who plays on a particular string.
8. (surfing) Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength.

Example Sentences

Be content to put your trust in honest stringers.

A startled man looked out the office window and then rushed for the door, but the boys were too quick for him. They were lying behind a wooden stringer in the lot before he even got near the door.

And he told a few stories about time he had spent in New York in the 1950s as a stringer for the Asahi newspapers… about meeting Diana Vreeland and Truman Capote and Judy Holiday.

"Okay, that's a keeper," Harold said as he netted the 3-pounder and put him on a stringer over the side of the boat.

A whoreson tyrant! He has been an old stringer in's days

[T]hose fellows know how to spot a stringer at work.

Word Forms

• stringers

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Use stringer when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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