stem

Where ye may all that are of noble ſtemm / Approach, and kiſs her ſacred veſtures hemm.

This is a stem / Of that victorious stock.

Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years.

After they are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough nor twig in the trunk or the stem.

the stem of an apple or a cherry

She was perfectly, fuckably proportioned everywhere else, both above and below her waist. A pocket-size Venus, with the longest stems he'd ever seen on someone so dang diminutive.

Waves of ecstasy roll through him as the moustachioed Casanova slides his stem in and out of the spaced-out chick.

Stem mastering processes a mix by breaking it down into several manageable pieces—that is, stereo stems. The stem approach allows the mastering engineer the opportunity to make larger or smaller changes to separate mix elements before the final compression and limiting are applied to the complete mix.

Both we will walke vpon the loftie cliffes,

And Chriſtian Merchants that with Ruſſian ſtems

Plow vp huge furrowes in the Caſpian ſea,

Shall vaile to vs, as Lords of al the Lake.