meaning of runner
1. One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
2. A detective.
3. A messenger.
4. A smuggler.
5. One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc.
6. 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. 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. 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.
11. A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
12. The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
13. 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.
14. Any cursorial bird.
15. A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
16. A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.
17. fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil
Related Words
runner | runner bean | runner-up | runner-up finish |
