Category:Runner

Run"ner, n. Etym: [from run.]

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. (bot.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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. (founding) (a) 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. (b) a trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a Ladle, mold, or pig bed.

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

12. (zoöl.)

Defn: 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.

13. (zoöl.)

Defn: any cursorial bird.

14. (mech.) (a) a movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface Of stone. (b) a tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or Grinding.