noun (n)

• a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books(noun.person)

  Synonym:
  sprigger, stripper
  

  source: wordnet30
• a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers(noun.person)

  source: wordnet30
• an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem(noun.cognition)

  Synonym:
  stemming algorithm
  

  source: wordnet30
• a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge(noun.artifact)

  source: wordnet30
• a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples)(noun.artifact)

  source: wordnet30
• One who, or that which, stems (in any of the senses of the verbs).(noun)

  source: webster1913