stringer

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: string=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

stringer, n. 

•  One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.  [1913 Webster]

  "Be content to put your trust in honest stringers."  [1913 Webster]
•  A libertine; a wencher.  Beau. & Fl.  [1913 Webster]
•  A longitudinal sleeper.  [1913 Webster]
•  A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.  [1913 Webster]
•  A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like.  [1913 Webster]
•  A reporter or correspondent who works for a news agency on a part-time basis, especially one covering local news for a newspaper published in a different area; -- called also string correspondent.  [PJC]
•  a longitudinal supporting structure to reinforce the skin of an airplane fuselage.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

stringer, n.
1 a longitudinal structural member in a framework, esp. of a ship or aircraft.
2 colloq. a newspaper correspondent not on the regular staff.
3 = STRINGBOARD.