Runner

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Runner \Run"ner\, n. [From {Run}.]
     1. One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
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     2. A detective. [Slang, Eng.] --Dickens.
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     3. A messenger. --Swift.
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     4. A smuggler. [Colloq.] --R. North.
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     5. One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat,
        hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.]
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     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.
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     7. The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
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     8. (Naut.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase
        the mechanical power of a tackle. --Totten.
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     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.
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     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.
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     11. The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are
         attached.
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     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.
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     13. (Zool.) Any cursorial bird.
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     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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  runner
       n 1: someone who imports or exports without paying duties [syn: {smuggler},
             {contrabandist}, {moon curser}, {moon-curser}]
       2: someone who travels on foot by running
       3: a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents;
          "he sent a runner over with the contract"
       4: a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or
          attempting to reach a base) [syn: {base runner}]
       5: a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new
          plants from buds at its tips [syn: {stolon}, {offset}]
       6: a trained athlete who competes in foot races
       7: a long narrow carpet
       8: device consisting of the parts on which something can slide
          along
       9: fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil [syn: {blue
          runner}, {Caranx crysos}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  111 Moby Thesaurus words for "runner":
     Hermes, Iris, Jehu, Mercury, Paul Revere, Pheidippides, Skimobile,
     Sno-Cat, agent, appendage, arm, bine, blade, bough, branch,
     branchedness, branchiness, burgeon, carrier, commissionaire,
     conductor, contrabandist, courier, creeper, deadwood,
     diplomatic courier, driver, emissary, engineer, estafette, express,
     flagellum, flier, fork, frond, functionary, gate, go-between, goer,
     gofer, gunrunner, hand, handler, hell-driver, horse racer, hummer,
     hurdler, hustler, imp, ingate, jockey, jogger, joint, leg, limb,
     link, lobe, lobule, manipulator, member, message-bearer, messenger,
     nuncio, offshoot, operant, operative, operator, organ, page, pilot,
     pinion, post, postboy, postrider, racer, ramage, ramification,
     rumrunner, sarment, scion, scorcher, shoot, sizzler, sled, sleigh,
     slip, smuggler, snowmobile, spear, speed demon, speeder, spray,
     sprig, sprit, sprout, sprue, spur, steersman, stem, stepper,
     stolon, sucker, switch, tail, tedge, tendril, thallus, turfman,
     twig, weasel, wing