stringentness (strinjentnes)

Stringency. stringer (string'er), n. [ 2. A device for attaching piano-strings to a ridge cast specially for that purpose on the plate, instead of winding them around tuning wrest-pins inserted in the wrest-pin plank. It is a small hooked steel bar with a screw-threaded shank that is pa ed through the ridge and then secured by a nut. The wire string is first pa ed through a hole in the hooked end of the stringer, and then looped once around the hook. stringer In tuning, the string is tightened by turning the nut on the shank of the stringer. 3. In railway eng in., a longitudinal timber on which a rail is fastened, and which rests on transverse sleepers.-4. In ship - building, an inside strake of plank or of plates, secured to the ribs and supporting the ends of the beams; a shelf. See cut under beam, 2 (g).-5. In carp.: (a) A horizontal timber connecting two posts in a framework. ( b ) Same as string - board. 6. A tie in a tru or a tru -bridge.- 7t. A for nicator; a wencher. A whoreson tyrant! hath been an old stringer in his days, I warrant him! IMG:content-2284.png:[blocks in formation] some are stringemen. MSS. Hard . No. 610, in Collier's Eng. Dram. Poetry, I. 32. string-minstrel (string'min"strel), n. A minstrel who accompanies himself on a stringed instrument. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 278. Stringopidæ (string-gop'i-dē), n . pl . [NL., String ops + -idæ .] Same as Strigopidæ . Str in go pinæ (string-go-pi'nē), n. pl. [NL., String ops + -inæ.] Same as Strigopinæ. String ops, String ops is (string gops, stringgop's is), n. [NL., & Gr. στρίγξ (στριγγ-) (> L. strix, strig-), a screech-owl ( string-band.