Shoemaker

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

  Shoemaker \Shoe"mak`er\, n.
     1. One whose occupation it is to make shoes and boots.
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     2. (Zool.)
        (a) The threadfish.
        (b) The runner, 12.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  shoemaker
       n : a person who makes or repairs shoes [syn: {cobbler}]