stringer

IPA: strˈɪŋɝ

Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
Someone who strings someone along.
A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel.
(carpentry) 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.
(journalism) 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.
(sports) A person who plays on a particular string.
(surfing) Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength.
(baseball, slang, 1800s) A hard-hit ball.
(fishing) A cord or chain, sometimes with additional loops, that is threaded through the mouth and gills of caught fish.
A pallet or skid used when shipping less than truckload (LTL) freight. A platform typically constructed of timber or plastic designed such that freight may be stacked on top, able to be lifted by a forklift.
(obsolete) A libertine; a wencher.
(birdwatching) A person who deliberately states that a certain bird is present when it is not; one who knowingly misleads other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity.
A surname originating as an occupation for a stringer.
An unincorporated community in Jasper County, Mississippi, United States, named after a postmaster.

Examples of "stringer" in Sentences

Smashing in a 'word stringer alonger' kind of way.
A stringer is an infrequent, paid, freelance contributor to a publication.
One week ago, a different stringer from the one who had been merely warned met with a much more tragic fate.
I believe the word stringer derived from the early practice of measuring column inches with a piece of string.
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.
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.
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.