Definition of runner

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Runner (n.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.

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Sledge :: Sledge (n.) A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting loads upon the snow, ice, or bare ground; a sled..
Forerunner :: Forerunner (n.) A piece of rag terminating the log line.
Stonerunner :: Stonerunner (n.) The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel..
Outrunner :: Outrunner (n.) An offshoot; a branch.
Spray :: Spray (n.) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
Skipjack :: Skipjack (n.) A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc..
Renner :: Renner (n.) A runner.
Tedge :: Tedge (n.) The gate of a mold, through which the melted metal is poured; runner, geat..
Runner :: Runner (n.) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
Runner :: Runner (n.) One who, or that which, runs; a racer..
Pre- :: Pre- () A prefix denoting priority (of time, place, or rank); as, precede, to go before; precursor, a forerunner; prefix, to fix or place before; preeminent eminent before or above others. Pre- is sometimes used intensively, as in prepotent, very potent..
Sow :: Sow (n.) The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.
Turnstone :: Turnstone (n.) Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species (Strepsilas interpres). They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and other aquatic animals. Called also brant bird, sand runner, sea quail, sea lark, sparkback, and skirlcrake..
Sow :: Sow (n.) A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
Bridgetree :: Bridgetree (n.) The beam which supports the spindle socket of the runner in a grinding mill.
Forerunner :: Forerunner (n.) A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever..
Jumper :: "Jumper (n.) A rude kind of sleigh; -- usually, a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills..
Cursitor :: Cursitor (n.) A courier or runner.
Prodrome :: Prodrome (n.) A forerunner; a precursor.
Runner :: Runner (n.) A messenger.
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