Runner \Run"ner\, n. [From Run.]
1. One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
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2. A detective. [Slang, Eng.] --Dickens.
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3. A messenger. --Swift.
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4. A smuggler. [Colloq.] --R. North.
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5. One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat,
hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.]
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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.
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7. The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
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8. (Naut.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase
the mechanical power of a tackle. --Totten.
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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.
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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.
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11. The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are
attached.
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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.
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13. (Zool.) Any cursorial bird.
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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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