Runner: English to English |
Runner (n.) A detective. |
Runner (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. |
Runner (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. |
Runner (n.) A messenger. |
Runner (n.) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone. |
Runner (n.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle. |
Runner (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. |
Runner (n.) A smuggler. |
Runner (n.) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding. |
Runner (n.) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed. |
Runner (n.) Any cursorial bird. |
Runner (n.) One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. |
Runner (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. |
Runner (n.) One who, or that which, runs; a racer. |
Runner (n.) The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached. |
Runner (n.) The rotating stone of a set of millstones. |