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runner |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Runner \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Scratch player \Scratch player\, runner \runner\, etc One that starts from the scratch; hence one of first-rate ability. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: runner n 1: someone who imports or exports without paying duties [syn: {smuggler}, {contrabandist}, {mooncurser}] 2: someone who travels on foot by running 3: a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents; "he sent a runner over with the contract" 4: a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base) [syn: {base runner}] 5: a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips [syn: {stolon}, {offset}] 6: a trained athlete who competes in foot races 7: the parts on which something can move along 8: fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil [syn: {blue runner}, {Caranx crysos}]
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