Runner
runner (?), n. (From Run.)1. One who, or that which, runs; a
racer.
2. A detective. (Slang, Eng.)
Dickens.
3. A messenger. Swift.
4. A smuggler. (Colloq.) R.
North.
5. One employed to solicit patronage, as for a
steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. (Cant, U.S.)
6. (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.
7. The rotating stone of a set of
millstones.
8. (Naut.) 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. (Founding) (a) 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) 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. (Zool.) 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. (Zool.) Any cursorial
bird.
14. (Mech.) (a) A
movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of
stone. (b) A tool on which lenses are
fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.
scratch player , runner, etc. One thatstarts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate ability.
|
