1. A long horizontal timber to connect uprights
   "The carpenter installed stringers to support the staircase"
    
2. Brace consisting of a longitudinal member to strengthen a fuselage or hull
   "The aircraft's stringers helped maintain its structural integrity"
    
3. A worker who strings
   "a stringer of beads"
    
4. A member of a squad on a team
   "a first stringer"; "a second stringer"

Derived forms: stringers

Type of: brace, bracing, participant, player, timber, worker

Part of: squad, team

Encyclopedia: Stringer, Mississippi