2. Noun. (nautical) Movement against a current, especially a tidal current. ¹
3. Noun. A process for removing the inflexional, and sometimes derivational, affixes from words. ¹
4. Noun. (context: rock climbing) The technique of bridging between two holds with hands and/or feet, applying forces to each in opposing directions in order to brace oneself in position. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stemming
1. stem [v] - See also: stem
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stemming
Literary usage of Stemming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Standardization of Mining Methods by Charles A. Mitke (1919)
"It naturally became the practice for miners in this country to load a hole with
powder and then use an extra amount for stemming', thus establishing a ..."
2. Standardization of Mining Methods by Charles A. Mitke (1919)
"It naturally became the practice for miners in this country to load a hole with
powder and then use an extra amount for stemming, thus establishing a custom ..."
3. Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society by Manchester Geological Society (1890)
"This experiment, in Mr. Grundy's opinion, proved the danger which attends the
incautious stemming of shot holes in mines where blasting is practised, ..."
4. Ski-running by Willi Rickmer Rickmers, D. M. M. Crichton Somerville (1907)
"stemming. stemming is akin to snow-ploughing, and by some German writers the
stemming position is termed the half-snow-plough position. ..."
5. Ski-running by D. M. M. Crichton Somerville, Willi Rickmer Rickmers (1905)
"stemming. stemming is akin to snow-ploughing, and by some German writers the
stemming position is termed the half-snow-plough position. ..."
6. The Culture of Tobacco by George M. Odlum, Brith South Africa Company (1905)
"stemming OR STRIPPING. The tobacco is placed in a very moist condition, ...
Machines have been invented for the stemming or stripping of tobacco. ..."
7. The American Quarterly Review by Robert Walsh (1835)
"They are stemming a torrent which threatens to sweep away every vestige of the
golden age of novel writing. Our chief hope of thorough reform in this ..."
8. Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous by Archibald Alison (1850)
"and therefore esteemed, the national will; and many opportunities of stemming
the torrent, which, as Dumont shows, afterwards arose, were irrecoverably ..."
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