Stringer

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Stringer may refer to:

Structural elements

• Stringer (aircraft), or longeron, a strip of wood or metal to which the skin of an aircraft is fastened
• Stringer (stairs), the structural member in a stairway that supports the treads and risers
• Stringer (surfing), a thin piece of wood running from nose to tail of a surfboard
• Strake or stringer, a longitudinal internal member in boat and ship building

Other uses

• Stringer (name), includes a list of people with the name
• Stringer (journalism), a type of freelance journalist
• Stringer (slag), an inclusion, possibly leading to a defect, in cast metal
• Fish stringer, a piece of cord or chain used to keep fish alive and secured while an angler continues fishing
• The Stringers, nickname of Hailsham Town F.C., English football club

See also

• String (disambiguation)
• Stranger (disambiguation)
• Strenger