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Runner   /rˈənər/   Listen
noun
Runner  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
2.
A detective. (Slang, Eng.)
3.
A messenger.
4.
A smuggler. (Colloq.)
5.
One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. (Cant, U.S.)
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)
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.
(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)
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.





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"Runner" Quotes from Famous Books



... gods providence would be to blame for having given it, since it tends to our harm. M. Bayle also thinks that human reason is a source of destruction and not of edification (Historical and Critical Dictionary, p. 2026, col. 2), that it is a runner who knows not where to stop, and who, like another Penelope, herself destroys her ...
— Theodicy - Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil • G. W. Leibniz
... that the object of our visit was to intercept and capture a blockade runner said to be aiming for that port. The news received an enthusiastic welcome fore and aft. The billet of ...
— A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" • Russell Doubleday
... chronical maladies of this age. Every body reads them, nay quotes them, though every body knows they are stuffed with lies or blunders. How should it be otherwise? If any extraordinary event happens, who but must hear it before it descends through a coffee-house to the runner of a daily paper? They who are always wanting news, are wanting to hear they don't know what. A lower species, indeed, is that of the scribes you mention, who every night compose a journal for the satisfaction of such illiterati, and feed them with all the vices and misfortunes of ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole, V4 • Horace Walpole
... neighbourhood of the vessel. They consist of small, low, narrow, light sledges, drawn by four to ten or twelve dogs. The sledges are made of small pieces of wood and bits of reindeer-horn, held together by sealskin straps. As runner-shoes thin plates of the ribs of the whale are used. The dogs, sharp-nosed, long-backed, and excessively dirty, have laid themselves to rest, ...
— The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II • A.E. Nordenskieold
... called the scarlet-runner thicket, but by some eastern name, and drawing nearer I found an opportunity for ...
— Nat the Naturalist - A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas • G. Manville Fenn


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