stemmer

Definition
(noun) a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books Definition
(noun) a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers Definition
(noun) an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem Definition
(noun) a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge Definition
(noun) a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples)