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Runner

Definition: One who, or that which, runs; a racer.

Runner

Definition: A detective.

Runner

Definition: A messenger.

Runner

Definition: A smuggler.

Runner

Definition: One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat,
hotel, shop, etc.

Runner

Definition: 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.

Runner

Definition: The rotating stone of a set of millstones.

Runner

Definition: A rope rove through a block and used to increase the
mechanical power of a tackle.

Runner

Definition: One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also
the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.

Runner

Definition: 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.

Runner

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

Runner

Definition: The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are
attached.

Runner

Definition: 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.

Runner

Definition: Any cursorial bird.

Runner

Definition: A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a
surface of stone.

Runner

Definition: A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for
polishing or grinding.