Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that strings.
  • noun A long heavy horizontal timber used as a support or connector.
  • noun A stringboard.
  • noun A horizontal timber used to support upright posts.
  • noun Sports A member of a specified string or squad on a team. Often used in combination.
  • noun A part-time or freelance correspondent for the news media.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In iron ship-building, a longitudinal member built of plates and bars in the interior of a vessel which reinforces and supports the framing above the turn of the bilge. Similar members below the turn of the bilge are called keelsons. See keelson, 2.
  • noun In geology, a narrow vein or dike.
  • noun One who strings.
  • noun A device for attaching piano-strings to a ridge cast specially for that purpose on the plate, instead of winding them around tuning wrest-pins inserted in the wrest-pin plank.
  • noun In railway engin., a longitudinal timber on which a rail is fastened, and which rests on transverse sleepers.
  • noun In ship-building, an inside strake of plank or of plates, secured to the ribs and supporting the ends of the beams; a shelf. See cut under beam, 2 .
  • noun In carpentry: A horizontal timber connecting two posts in a framework.
  • noun Same as string-board.
  • noun A tie in a truss or a truss-bridge.
  • noun A fornicator; a wencher.
  • noun A small stick or switch used to string fish on by the gills.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
  • noun obsolete A libertine; a wencher.
  • noun (Railroad) A longitudinal sleeper.
  • noun (Shipbuilding) A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.
  • noun (Carp.) A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like.
  • noun (Newspapers) A reporter or correspondent who works for a news agency on a part-time basis, especially one covering local news for a newspaper published in a different area; -- called also string correspondent.
  • noun (Aviation) a longitudinal supporting structure to reinforce the skin of an airplane fuselage.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
  • noun Someone who leads someone along.
  • noun A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel
  • noun A freelance correspondent not on the regular newspaper staff, especially one retained on a part-time basis to report on events in a particular place.
  • noun surfing Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength.
  • noun baseball, slang, 1800s A hard-hit ball.
  • noun fishing A cord or chain, sometimes with additional loops, that is threaded through the mouth and gills of caught fish.
  • noun obsolete A libertine; a wencher.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a worker who strings
  • noun a member of a squad on a team
  • noun brace consisting of a longitudinal member to strengthen a fuselage or hull
  • noun a long horizontal timber to connect uprights

Etymologies

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string +‎ -er (“agent”)

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Examples

  • I believe the word stringer derived from the early practice of measuring column inches with a piece of string.

    Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001

  • I believe the word stringer derived from the early practice of measuring column inches with a piece of string.

    Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001

  • I believe the word stringer derived from the early practice of measuring column inches with a piece of string.

    Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001

  • Whether you can get away with that sort of attitude as the head critic of the New York TImes, as opposed to a mere stringer, is something I wouldn't know, though.

    Four Once Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • Out in the field, a veteran Paris freelancer goes to desperate lengths for his next byline, while the new Cairo stringer is mercilessly manipulated by an outrageous war correspondent with an outsize ego.

    Review of The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman 2010

  • Out in the field, a veteran Paris freelancer goes to desperate lengths for his next byline, while the new Cairo stringer is mercilessly manipulated by an outrageous war correspondent with an outsize ego.

    The Imperfectionists: Summary and book reviews of The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman. 2010

  • A stringer is an infrequent, paid, freelance contributor to a publication.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • One week ago, a different stringer from the one who had been merely warned met with a much more tragic fate.

    Boing Boing: September 25, 2005 - October 1, 2005 Archives 2005

  • One of the things we ` re forgetting is that in this day in age a lot of so-called stringer photographers will knock on the door of, let ` s say magazine exhibition and say, I ` ve got a camera and I ` m willing to do just about anything to get you this picture.

    CNN Transcript Jun 20, 2005 2005

  • Smashing in a 'word stringer alonger' kind of way.

    rainandfire Diary Entry rainandfire 2001

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  • A part-time newspaper correspondent covering a local area for a paper published elsewhere.

    November 3, 2007