Stemmer - Definition

n 1: a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves
and binds the leaves together into books [syn: stripper,
stemmer, sprigger]
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 [syn:
stemmer, stemming algorithm]
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)