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Webster 1913 Edition
Runner
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.
(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. 13.
(Zool.)
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Runner
RUN'NER
,Noun.
1.
One that runs; that which runs.2.
A racer.3.
A messenger.4.
A shooting sprig.In every root there will be one runner, with little buds on it.
5.
One of the stones of a mill.6.
A bird.7.
A thick rope used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.