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Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows. / Someone who strings someone along.

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Source Word

stringer

IPA(Pronunciation)

/stɹɪŋə/

Noun

slang obsolete

Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows. / Someone who strings someone along.

Japanese Meaning

弓などで使用される弦（ひも）を作ったり提供したりする人 / 他人を虚偽の約束などでだます、あるいは誤解させ続ける人

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The stringer skillfully threaded the beads onto the necklace, humming softly as she worked.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

その糸を通す人は、作業しながら静かに鼻歌を歌い、器用にビーズをネックレスに通した。

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Sense（1）

Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.

Be content to put your trust in honest stringers.

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Sense（2）

Someone who strings someone along.

Sense（3）

A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel.

A startled man looked out the office window and then rushed for the door, but the boys were too quick for him. They were lying behind a wooden stringer in the lot before he even got near the door.

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Sense（4）

The side rail supporting the rungs of a ladder or the steps of a flight of stairs.

Sense（5）

A small screw-hook to which piano strings are sometimes attached.

Sense（6）

And he told a few stories about time he had spent in New York in the 1950s as a stringer for the Asahi newspapers… about meeting Diana Vreeland and Truman Capote and Judy Holiday.

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Sense（7）

(sports) A person who plays on a particular string.

Sense（8）

(surfing) Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength.

Sense（9）

(baseball, slang, 1800s) A hard-hit ball.

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Sense（11）

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.

Sense（12）

(obsolete) A libertine; a wencher.

A whoreson tyrant! He has been an old stringer in's days

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Sense（13）

(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.