[f. prec.: see -ERY.] (See quot. 1859.)
1859. Bartlett, Dict. Amer. (ed. 2), 450. Stemmery, a large building in which tobacco is stemmed, that is, in which the thin part of the leaf is stripped from the fibrous veins that run through it.
1897. Killebrew & Myrick, Tobacco Leaf, 283. The work in the stemmeries goes on from November … until June.
