runner

1. n. One who, or that which, runs; a racer. Source: opted

2. n. A detective. Source: opted

3. n. A messenger. Source: opted

4. n. A smuggler. Source: opted

5. n. One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. Source: opted

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: opted

7. n. The rotating stone of a set of millstones. Source: opted

8. n. A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle. Source: opted

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: opted

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: opted

11. n. A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed. Source: opted

12. n. The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached. Source: opted

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: opted

14. n. Any cursorial bird. Source: opted

15. n. A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone. Source: opted

16. n. A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding. Source: opted

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