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Runner

Runner Meaning & Definition
Runner Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Runner?

[n] fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil
[n] device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along
[n] a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)
[n] a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents; "he sent a runner over with the contract"
[n] someone who travels on foot by running
[n] a trained athlete who competes in foot races
[n] someone who imports or exports without paying duties
[n] a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips

Synonyms | Synonyms for Runner: base runner | blue runner | Caranx crysos | contrabandist | mooncurser | offset | smuggler | stolon

Related Terms | Find terms related to Runner:

See Also | arms-runner | athlete | ballplayer | baseball player | blade | courier | criminal | crook | device | felon | gunrunner | jack | jock | jogger | long-distance runner | malefactor | marathon runner | marathoner | messenger | miler | outlaw | plant organ | road runner | rumrunner | ski | skis | sled | sledge | sleigh | sprinter | traveler | traveller

Runner In Webster's Dictionary

\Run"ner\, n. [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.) 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. --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. (Zo["o]l.) 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. (Zo["o]l.) 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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