a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.) | a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples) |
| a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge |
| an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem |
| a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers |
| a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books |