n.
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)
Idiom of the Day
keep (something) under one's hat
to keep a secret, to not tell something
My coworker will not say where he is going for his holiday. He wants to keep it under his hat.
