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noun
Runt  n.  (Written also rant)  
1.
(Zool.) Any animal which is unusually small, as compared with others of its kind; applied particularly to domestic animals.
2.
(Zool.) A variety of domestic pigeon, related to the barb and carrier.
3.
A dwarf; also, a mean, despicable, boorish person; used opprobriously. "Before I buy a bargain of such runts, I'll buy a college for bears, and live among 'em."
4.
The dead stump of a tree; also, the stem of a plant. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.) "Neither young poles nor old runts are durable."





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"Runt" Quotes from Famous Books



... rot in the fields! I won't be bossed and blackguarded by any dirty little runt that thinks because he owns the only threshing outfit in the neighbourhood that he ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 • Various
... "Yu runt, I'm a better man than yu even if yu do wear hair pants," referring to Hopalong's chaps. "Yu cow-wrastlers make me tired, an' I'm goin' to show yu that this town is too good for you. Yu can say it right now that ...
— Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up - Bar-20 • Clarence Edward Mulford
... you refer to that fact some three thousand, eight hundred and sixty-one times. In fact I have almost learned it by heart. I haven't any doubt the man who said it was a little runt not much bigger ...
— The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine • Ross Kay
... "the Runt," helped himself to another flank steak. He was not much of a cow-hand, but when it came to eating Johnnie was always conscientiously on ...
— The Big-Town Round-Up • William MacLeod Raine
... I jumped for him with the idea of taking the bowl off and putting it on my own head. He saw what I was up to and he fought like a cornered rat, but the blackness hadn't affected my muscles. I'm a pretty big man, sir, and No. 9764 is a little runt, and it didn't take me long to get the bowl off his head and pulled on over mine. As soon as I did that, I seemed to be able to think clearer. I was sitting on No. 9764 and was ready to tap him with a persuader if he started anything, but I ...
— Astounding Stories, February, 1931 • Various


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