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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.

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

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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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