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Runner :: Runner (n.) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed..

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 detective.

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..

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..

Runner :: Runner (n.) 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..

Runner :: Runner (n.) Any cursorial bird.

Cursitor :: Cursitor (n.) A courier or runner.

Goer :: Goer (n.) One who, or that which, goes; a runner or walker.

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.

Forerunner :: Forerunner (n.) A predecessor; an ancestor.

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..

Baptist :: Baptist (n.) One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ..

Spray :: Spray (n.) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in all parts of the mold..

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..

Stonesmickle :: Stonerunner (n.) The dotterel.

Slipes :: Slipes (v.) Sledge runners on which a skip is dragged in a mine.

Pedestrian :: Pedestrian (n.) A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif., a professional walker or runner..

Footman :: Footman (n.) Formerly, a servant who ran in front of his master's carriage; a runner..

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