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.