stringer

Definition

Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.

Etymology

From string + -er.

Example Sentences

• "Be content to put your trust in honest stringers."
• "A startled man looked out the office window and then rushed for the door, but the boys were too quick for him. They were lying behind a wooden stringer in the lot before he even got near the door."
• "And he told a few stories about time he had spent in New York in the 1950s as a stringer for the Asahi newspapers… about meeting Diana Vreeland and Truman Capote and Judy Holiday."