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stringer 
1 n. a log or timber set across a stream to serve as a foot-bridge.
See also: crossing-stringer
- 1896 With the current running so swiftly from such a deep volume of water, it was no easy thing for women to pass on flatted stringers, nor even for men.
- 1923 When she came to the river the bridge was gone, swept away, and only the "stringers" spanned the black flood.
2 n. a chain along which a number of snap hooks are spaced, used for stringing caught fish, each being attached through a gill to one of the hooks.
- 1965 It was one of these summer dog days when the stringer was bare.
3 n. Lumbering See quote.
See also: dram
- 1945 Space was left for "stringers," which were pieces of timber hauled lengthwise of the dram up upon the traverses and withed down to them; the "stringers" thus enclosed, and prevented the possible escape of, the un-withed cross tier in rough weather or in the rapids.
- 1896 With the current running so swiftly from such a deep volume of water, it was no easy thing for women to pass on flatted stringers, nor even for men.