The Collaborative International Dictionary
Running \Run"ning\, a.
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Moving or advancing by running. Specifically, of a horse:
Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
trained and kept for running races; as, a running horse.
--Law.
Successive; one following the other without break or intervention; -- said of periods of time; as, to be away two days running; to sow land two years running.
Flowing; easy; cursive; as, a running hand.
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Continuous; keeping along step by step; as, he stated the facts with a running explanation. ``A running conquest.''
--Milton.What are art and science if not a running commentary on Nature?
--Hare. (Bot.) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem; as, a running vine.
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(Med.) Discharging pus; as, a running sore.
Running block (Mech.), a block in an arrangement of pulleys which rises or sinks with the weight which is raised or lowered.
Running board, a narrow platform extending along the side of a locomotive.
Usage examples of "running block".
The running block was drawn up close to the fixed block on each davit, and each davit line was looped on deck and lashed there, to a cleat, so it wouldn't be working free and trailing overboard.
Shane was nearest to the man and he hit him hard with a running block.
In football terminology it was called a running block, a vicious, maiming block, and it would have put most unprepared men in a hospital bed: all others it would have left on the ground in momentary stunned helplessness-all others, that is, except Darius.