Definition of runner

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

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Footman :: Footman (n.) Formerly, a servant who ran in front of his master's carriage; a runner..
Cursitor :: Cursitor (n.) A courier or runner.
Shoe :: Shoe (n.) A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow..
Runner :: Runner (n.) A smuggler.
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..
Herald :: Herald (n.) A forerunner; a a precursor; a harbinger.
Stonerunner :: Stonerunner (n.) The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel..
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..
Runner :: Runner (n.) One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc..
Overrunner :: Overrunner (n.) One that overruns.
Prodrome :: Prodrome (n.) A forerunner; a precursor.
Sarment :: Sarment (n.) A prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawberry. See Runner..
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..
Sled :: Sled (n.) A small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice..
Runner :: Runner (n.) The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
Runner :: Runner (n.) 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..
Float :: Float (v. i.) A polishing block used in marble working; 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..
Runner :: Runner (n.) 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..
Precursor :: Precursor (n.) One who, or that which, precedes an event, and indicates its approach; a forerunner; a harbinger..
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