runner

Definitions

1. 1.A detective. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.
2. 2.A messenger. Swift.
3. 3.A smuggler. [Colloq.] R. North.
4. 4.One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.]
5. 5.(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.
6. 6.The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
7. 7.(Naut.) A rope through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle. Totten.
8. 8.One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
9. 9.(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.
10. 10.The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
11. 11.(Zoöl.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatis) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water.
12. 12.(Zoöl.) Any cursorial bird.
13. 13.(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.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is one employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.] called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is the rotating stone of a set of millstones called?
• What is a rope through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle. Totten called?
• What is one of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice called?
• What is the movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached called?
• What is a food fish (Elagatis pinnulatis) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water called?
• What is (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 called?