Runner /(?)/

Run·ner

Runner

n.
  1. One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
  2. A detective. [Slang, Eng.]
  3. A messenger.
  4. A smuggler. [Colloq.]
  5. One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.]
  6. 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. (Bot.)
  7. The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
  8. A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle. (Naut.)
  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 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. (Founding)
  11. The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
  12. 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. (Zool.)
  13. Any cursorial bird. (Zool.)
  14. A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone. (Mech.)