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Definition of Runner
Run´ner | n. | 1. | One who, or that which, runs; a racer. | | 2. | A detective. | | 3. | A messenger. | | 4. | A smuggler. | | 5. | One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. | | 6. | (Bot.) A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil. | | 7. | The rotating stone of a set of millstones. | | 8. | (Naut.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle. | | 9. | One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice. | | 10. | (Founding) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel. | | 11. | The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached. | | 12. | (Zool.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; - called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water. | | 13. | (Zool.) Any cursorial bird. | | 14. | (Mech.) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone. |
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