runner

runner is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] One who, or that which, runs; a racer.

[2] A detective. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.

[3] A messenger. Swift.

[4] A smuggler. [Colloq.] R. North.

[5] One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.]

[6] 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] A rope through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle. Totten.

[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] 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] A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.

[12] The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.

[13] A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatis) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water.

[14] Any cursorial bird.

[15] A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.

[16] A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.

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