·noun Any cursorial bird.
II. Runner ·noun A Smuggler.
III. Runner ·noun A Detective.
IV. Runner ·noun A Messenger.
V. Runner ·noun One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
VI. Runner ·noun The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
VII. Runner ·noun The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
VIII. Runner ·noun One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, ·etc.
IX. Runner ·noun A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.
X. Runner ·noun A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
XI. Runner ·noun A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.
XII. Runner ·noun A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
XIII. Runner ·noun One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
XIV. Runner ·noun 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.
XV. Runner ·noun 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.
XVI. Runner ·noun 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.