stringer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɪŋə/
ipa: /stɹɪŋɚ/
rhymes: -ɪŋə(ɹ)
Forms: form: stringers
Etymology: From string + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Be content to put your trust in honest stringers.
ref: 1545, Roger Ascham, Toxophilus:
glosses: Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
glosses: Someone who strings someone along.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row:
glosses: A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel.
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
synonyms: stile
rail
glosses: The side rail supporting the rungs of a ladder or the steps of a flight of stairs.
glosses: A small screw-hook to which piano strings are sometimes attached.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1991, Douglas Coupland, “Enter Hyperspace”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: 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.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A person who plays on a particular string.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A hard-hit ball.
examples: text: "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.
ref: 1970, Field & Stream, volume 75, number 7, page 76:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A cord or chain, sometimes with additional loops, that is threaded through the mouth and gills of caught fish.
glosses: A pallet or skid used when shipping less than truckload (LTL) freight. A platform typically constructed of timber or plastic designed such that freight may be stacked on top, able to be lifted by a forklift.
examples: text: A whoreson tyrant! He has been an old stringer in's days
ref: 1607 (first performance), Francis Beaumont, “The Knight of the Burning Pestle”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A libertine; a wencher.
examples: text: [T]hose fellows know how to spot a stringer at work.
ref: 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 82:
topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A person who deliberately states that a certain bird is present when it is not; one who knowingly misleads other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity.
Derived terms: first-stringer
second-stringer
third-stringer