Stringer

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows. Be content to put your trust in honest stringers. Ascham.

2. A libertine; a wencher. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

3. A longitudinal sleeper.

4. A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.

5. A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like.