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
according to Hoyle
doing something strictly by the rules, doing something the usual and correct way (Hoyle was a writer who was an expert on the rules of card games)
"According to Hoyle, we should not use this room but probably nobody will complain if we do use it."