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Entry 14 senses Webster, 1913

Runner

/rŭn'-ẽr/ · Run·ner · IPA /ˈɹʌnɚ/
01 n. One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
  1. 1.
    One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
  2. 2.
    A detective.[Slang, Eng.]
  3. 3.
    A messenger.
  4. 4.
    A smuggler.[Colloq.]
  5. 5.
    One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc.[Cant, U.S.]
  6. 6.
    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.(Bot.)
  7. 7.
    The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
  8. 8.
    A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.(Naut.)
  9. 9.
    One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
  10. 10.
    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.(Founding)
  11. 11.
    The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
  12. 12.
    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.(Zool.) Also: skipjack, shoemaker, yellowtail
  13. 13.
    Any cursorial bird.(Zool.)
  14. 14.
    A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.(Mech.)