stringer
Collocations
3ADJ.
behind, wooden
STRINGER + NOUN
asahi, lot
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
Be content to put your trust in honest stringers.
Someone who strings someone along.
A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel.
A startled man looked out the office window and then rushed for the door, but the boys were too quick for him. They were lying behind a wooden stringer in the lot before he even got near the door.
The side rail supporting the rungs of a ladder or the steps of a flight of stairs.
A small screw-hook to which piano strings are sometimes attached.
name
A surname originating as an occupation for a stringer.
An unincorporated community in Jasper County, Mississippi, United States, named after a postmaster.
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3Be content to put your trust in honest stringers.
WiktionaryA startled man looked out the office window and then rushed for the door, but the boys were too quick for him. They were lying behind a wooden stringer in the lot before he even got near the door.
WiktionaryAnd he told a few stories about time he had spent in New York in the 1950s as a stringer for the Asahi newspapers… about meeting Diana Vreeland and Truman Capote and Judy Holiday.
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