stringers

Noun

stringer (plural stringers)

1. Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
   • Be content to put your trust in honest stringers.1545, Roger Ascham, Toxophilus
2. Someone who strings someone along.
3. A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel.
   • 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.1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

   Synonyms:

   string, stringboard, stringpiece

4. The side rail supporting the rungs of a ladder or the steps of a flight of stairs.

   Synonyms:

   stile, rail, string, stringboard, stringpiece

5. A small screw-hook to which piano strings are sometimes attached.
6. 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.
   • 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.1991, Douglas Coupland, “Enter Hyperspace”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC

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