Crossword clues for runner
runner
- Track athlete
- Track competitor
- Marathon entrant
- Hall rug
- Marathon man
- Marathon participant
- Relay team member
- Meet participant
- Sled blade
- Narrow rug
- Long narrow carpet
- Hallway rug
- "Homestar ___" (popular Internet toon)
- Track-meet participant
- Staircase decoration
- Sled feature
- One bound for home
- On second thought, make it a grim futuristic epic: "Zorro, the Gay Blade..."
- Miler or sprinter
- Marathon competitor
- Long rug
- Footrace participant
- Foot race competitor
- Feature of a sled
- Baseballer on base
- Athlete — errand boy — strip of cloth
- Athlete — bean
- 400-meter participant
- Sled piece
- Hall floor cover
- A horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
- Fish of western Atlantic Cape Cod to Brazil
- A trained athlete who competes in foot races
- A baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)
- A person who is employed to deliver messages or documents
- Someone who imports or exports without paying duties
- Device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along
- Skate blade
- Sleigh part
- Candidate
- Alberto Salazar, e.g.
- Long, narrow carpet
- Sled part
- Salazar or Roe
- Athlete's agent
- Errand-boy who's done with escaping?
- Athlete - bean
- Strip of carpet
- Fugitive smuggler
- Horse in a race
- Athlete, artilleryman, getting new start
- Dashing fellow who's caught up in traffic
- Kind of bean
- Kind of carpet
- Wall St. figure
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Runner \Run"ner\, n. [From Run.]
One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
A detective. [Slang, Eng.]
--Dickens.A messenger.
--Swift.A smuggler. [Colloq.]
--R. North.One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.]
(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.
The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
(Naut.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.
--Totten.One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
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(Founding)
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.
A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
(Zo["o]l.) 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.
(Zo["o]l.) Any cursorial bird.
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(Mech.)
A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "messenger on foot," agent noun from run (v.). Meaning "one who runs" is early 14c. Meaning "smuggler" first recorded 1721; sense of "police officer" is from 1771. Meaning "rooting stem of a plant" is from 1660s; that of "embroidered cloth for a table" is from 1888.
Wiktionary
n. 1 agent noun of run; somebody who runs. 2 # Somebody who moves at a fast pace. 3 # Somebody who controls or manages (e.g. a system). 4 # (cx slang English) An automobile 5 (context slang English) A quick escape away from a scene. 6 A type of soft-soled shoe originally intended for runners, compare trainer; a sneaker. 7 A part of an apparatus that moves quickly 8 A mechanical part intended for wheels to run on or to slide against another surface. 9 A strip of fabric used to decorate a table. 10 A long, narrow carpet for a high traffic area such as a hall or stairs. 11 (context cricket English) A player who runs for a batsman who is too injured to run; he is dressed exactly as the injured batsman, and carries a bat. 12 (context baseball English) A player who runs the bases. 13 (context Australian rules football English) A person (from one or the other team) who runs out onto the field during the game to take verbal instructions from the coach to the players. A runner mustn't interfere with play, and may have to wear an identifying shirt to make clear his or her purpose on the field. 14 (context slang English) A part of a cigarette that is burning unevenly. 15 (context botany English) A long stolon sent out by a plant (such as strawberry), in order to root new plantlets. 16 (context climbing English) A short sling with a karabiner on either end, used to link the climbing rope to a bolt or other protection such as a nut or friend. 17 (context poker slang English) A competitor in a poker tournament. 18 A restaurant employee responsible for taking food from the kitchens to the tables. 19 A leaping food fish ((taxlink Elagatis pinnulatis species noshow=1)) of Florida and the West Indies; the skipjack, shoemaker, or yellowtail. 20 (context sports slang English) An employee of a sports agent who tries to recruit possible player clients for the agent.
WordNet
n. someone who imports or exports without paying duties [syn: smuggler, contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser]
someone who travels on foot by running
a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents; "he sent a runner over with the contract"
a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base) [syn: base runner]
a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips [syn: stolon, offset]
a trained athlete who competes in foot races
a long narrow carpet
device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along
fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil [syn: blue runner, Caranx crysos]
Wikipedia
A runner is a person who runs.
Runner may also refer to:
The Runner (Gilpetperdon) is a fictional character that appeared in publications from Marvel Comics. He is one of the Elders of the Universe.
In cricket, a runner is a team member who runs between the wickets for an injured batsman.
When a runner is used, the batsman stands in position and plays shots as normal, but does not attempt to run between the wickets: the runner runs for him. The runner occupies the injured batsman's crease when he is on strike, but takes up a position away from the pitch at the umpire's discretion, typically on a pitch parallel to that being used for the game.
When the injured batsman moves off strike, he then takes up the position near the square leg umpire (not at the bowler's end), and the runner stands next to the bowler's wicket as in the normal course of play.
- A runner can only be used if the batsman becomes injured or ill during the match.
- His use must meet the approval of the umpires.
- The runner must be a member of the batting side, but not the twelfth man.
- He must also already have batted in the innings, if possible.
- The runner must wear all the external protective equipment worn by the batsman and must carry a bat.
If either the injured batsman or his runner is out of his ground, the batsman is liable to be run out or stumped. The runner is also subject to other laws such as obstructing the field and handling the ball.
In June 2011, the International Cricket Council announced that, from October 1 2011, runners would no longer be used in international cricket.
Runner were a short-lived British rock band, formed in 1978 out of a friendship between Steve Gould of the band Rare Bird and Alan Merrill of the band Arrows.
Steve Gould had been touring with Merrill's live band Arrows after his band Rare Bird broke up in 1976. When the Arrows broke up in 1978 both singers were looking for new projects. They went into the studio to do a rough demo with bass player Mick Feat, who was playing with Van Morrison at the time, and drummer Dave Dowle who was playing with the band Whitesnake.
The demo the foursome did was so good that the band were signed by Island Records immediately. They went to The Manor recording studio in Oxfordshire England and recorded their first and only album with James Guthrie producing.
The Runner album made the US Billboard top 100 charts, but due to musical differences the band broke up whilst recording their second album with Alex Sadkin producing.
After the band split, Mick Feat and Steve Gould went on to record with Alvin Lee, Dave Dowle with the Maggie Bell band Nightflyer, and Alan Merrill joined Rick Derringer's band Derringer.
Oddly, the band Runner never toured, in spite of their making the American charts.
A runner was a soldier responsible for passing on messages between fronts during war. This was arguably the most dangerous job of all, since these soldiers obviously had to leave the safety of a trench, bunker or any other kind of shelter in order to move from one front to the other. One example is World War I, which was dominated by trench warfare. This necessitated lots of runners. Passing messages between the trenches was not possible without climbing up to ground level and running towards the other trench. While on the ground, the soldier was completely exposed to enemy lookouts, and it was commonplace for runners to die before reaching their destination. For the same reason, communication between fronts was very difficult during World War I, and the officers could not be sure that a message has reached its recipient unless the runner actually managed to return. Runners were very important and key in early wars, particularly World War I.
Adolf Hitler was a runner for the German army during World War I, and he was wounded twice. Runners were often decorated for bravery, and Hitler was no exception, receiving both second class and first class Iron Cross during the war.
Usage examples of "runner".
There were eight runners that day, a pleasant sized field, and Abseil was second favourite.
It was shown in the last chapter that the stolons or runners of certain plants circumnutate largely, and that this movement apparently aids them in finding a passage between the crowded stems of adjoining plants.
If a runner wanted to hide and develop a safe identity, pretending to be a Yale alumnus was a rotten idea, and wearing a Yale ring was a worse idea.
Every runner I know would give their right nut to work with Argent, and half the cred involved.
A wooden brace somewhere below deck cracked audibly, but both runners held.
He was a good batsman and a splendid base runner, and was nearly as good a player on the infield as in the out.
As a thrower, fielder and base runner he was in the first class, while as a batsman he was only fair.
He could never cover as much ground as people thought, and though he ranked with Lange as a batsman, he was not in the same class with that player either as a base runner or a fielder, the Californian in the two latter respects being able to race all around him.
Four hundred and eighty-seven runners had started the race, and remarkably, nearly seventy of them eventually returned to the finish line, each having delivered the necessary four Popsicle sticks marked with their bib number.
The Rebels held the strong forts of Caswell and Fisher, at the mouth of Cape Fear River, and outside, the Frying Pan Shoals, which extended along the coast forty or fifty miles, kept our blockading fleet so far off, and made the line so weak and scattered, that there was comparatively little risk to the small, swift-sailing vessels employed by the blockade runners in running through it.
I wanted to drive deep into the Atchafalaya Swamp, past the confines of reason, into the past, into a world of lost dialects, gator hunters, busthead whiskey, moss harvesters, Jax beer, trotline runners, moonshiners, muskrat trappers, cockfights, bloodred boudin, a jigger of Jim Beam lowered into a frosted schooner of draft, outlaw shrimpers, dirty rice black from the pot, hogmeat cooked in rum, Pearl and Regal and Grand Prize and Lone Star iced down in washtubs, crawfish boiled with cob corn and artichokes, all of it on the tree-flooded, alluvial rim of the world, where the tides and the course of the sun were the only measures of time.
One time Adam Piatt, the spare outfielder, had gone up to the plate in a tight game with a runner on first base with one out, and bunted the guy over.
All the ceratopsids were stout four-legged runners, rhinoceros-like in their bulk.
When the catcher threw the ball, the coacher started down the base-line toward home, and the sec-mid baseman, seeing only imperfectly, mistook him for the runner and returned the ball quickly to the catcher.
By the time the coacher has seen the point and called to the runner and the latter has gotten himself into action, the chance has long passed.