stringer.

1. A long structural piece supporting or connecting parts, such as the side beam of a staircase.

2. A journalist who supplies reports to a publication without being a regular staff employee.

3. A line or device used to hold caught fish together.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• stair stringer
• steel stringer

On the page

Rust streaked the steel stringer beneath the open stairs.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture / spatial description. Forms: Singular stringer; plural stringers. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: setting, description. Commonness: uncommon.