stemmer

noun

1. 1

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

2. 2

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

3. 3

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

4. 4

   a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers

5. 5

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