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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Runner :: Runner (n.) One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
Runner :: Runner (n.) One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc..
Sled :: Sled (n.) A small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice..
Sarment :: Sarment (n.) A prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawberry. See Runner..
Slipes :: Slipes (v.) Sledge runners on which a skip is dragged in a mine.
Spindle :: Spindle (n.) The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.
Spray :: Spray (n.) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
Runner :: Runner (n.) A smuggler.
Shoemaker :: Shoemaker (n.) The runner, 12..
Stonerunner :: Stonerunner (n.) The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel..
Precursor :: Precursor (n.) One who, or that which, precedes an event, and indicates its approach; a forerunner; a harbinger..
Runner :: Runner (n.) A messenger.
Sleigh :: Sleigh (n.) A vehicle moved on runners, and used for transporting persons or goods on snow or ice; -- in England commonly called a sledge..
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..
Runner :: Runner (n.) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
Pung :: Pung (n.) A kind of plain sleigh drawn by one horse; originally, a rude oblong box on runners..
Skate :: Skate (n.) A metallic runner with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, -- made to be fastened under the foot, and used for moving rapidly on ice..
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..
Bridgetree :: Bridgetree (n.) The beam which supports the spindle socket of the runner in a grinding mill.
Yellowtail :: Yellowtail (n.) The runner, 12..
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