runner

• A messenger
• (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play
• a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)
• fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil
• someone who imports or exports without paying duties
• a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
• someone who travels on foot by running
• a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents
• a trained athlete who competes in foot races
• a long narrow carpet
• device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along
• One who, or that which, runs
• A detective
• A smuggler
• One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc
• 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
• The rotating stone of a set of millstones
• A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle
• One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides
• A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern
• A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed
• The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached
• A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies
• Any cursorial bird
• A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone
• A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding

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