Definitions for the word "runner" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
A detective.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A messenger.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A smuggler.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. n.
Any cursorial bird.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
15. n.
A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
16. n.
A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
17. n.
1 person, horse, etc. That runs, esp. In a race. 2 creeping rooting plant-stem. 3 rod, groove, roller, or blade on which a thing, e.g. A sledge, slides. 4 sliding ring on a rod etc. 5 messenger. 6 (in full runner bean) twining bean plant with long flat green edible seed pods. 7 long narrow ornamental cloth or rug. do a runner slang leave hastily; flee.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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