Runner
Runner , noun
[From Run.]
1.
One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
2.
A detective. [Slang, English] — Dickens
3.
A messenger. — Swift
4.
A smuggler. [Colloquial] — R. North
5.
One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, United States]
6.
(Botany) 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.
7.
The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
8.
(Nautical) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle. — Totten
9.
One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
10.
(a) (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.
(b)
(Founding) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
11.
The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
12.
(Zoology) 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.
13.
(Zoology) Any cursorial bird.
14.
(a) (Mechanics) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
(b)
(Mechanics) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.