Noun

• 1. a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books

• 2. a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers

• 3. an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem

• 4. a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge

• 5. a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples)