Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A factory where tobacco is stripped from the stem.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun United States A large building in which tobacco is stemmed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US A
building in whichtobacco isstemmed .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ek het die Bybel en die stemmery bymekaar gebring - tussen daar's 'n gaping.
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Ek het die Bybel en die stemmery bymekaar gebring - tussen daar's 'n gaping.
CONTENTS 2008
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You're saying that women that were on the stemmery machine was making twenty cents an hour?
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I was told that the 194 was for the stemmery and women were basically in that …
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From age thirteen you started working at the stemmery, stemming tobacco.
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- The American Cigar Company in Norfolk, a tobacco stemmery complex, constructed in 1903, and consisting of a primary processing building and a boiler building, both of which embody the era's style of mill construction and industrial design.
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Built near railroad tracks for easy transport of materials and product, the stemmery was located near to one of Norfolk's African American communities, thus attracting an easily-exploitable workforce.
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