RUNNER

One who, or that which, runs; a racer.

A detective. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.

A messenger. Swift.

A smuggler. [Colloq.] R. North.

One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.]

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 through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle. Totten.

One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.

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.

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 pinnulatis) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water.

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.