stringer

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