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The Clue
Canning factory group (8 letter answer)
The Answer
STEMMERS
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Notes
The answer STEMMERS is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
STEMMER as a noun:
1. (stripper, stemmer, sprigger) = a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books
2. a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers
3. (stemmer, stemming algorithm) = an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem
4. a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge
5. a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples)