STRINGER • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Stringer

... pressure. As an illustration of how materials may become highly heated when forced to move particle on particle, it may be well to cite the case in which the iron stringpiece on top of a wooden dam near Holyoke, Mass., was affected when the barrier went away in a flood. The iron stringer, being very well put together, was, it is said, drawn out by the strain until it became sensibly reddened by the motion of its particles, and finally fell hissing into the waters below. A like heating is observable when metal is ...

— Outlines of the Earth's History - A Popular Study in Physiography • Nathaniel Southgate Shaler