Definition of runner

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Runner (n.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.

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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..
Sledge :: Sledge (n.) A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting loads upon the snow, ice, or bare ground; a sled..
Sow :: Sow (n.) The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.
Stonerunner :: Stonerunner (n.) The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel..
Spindle :: Spindle (n.) The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.
Marcobrunner :: Marcobrunner (n.) A celebrated Rhine wine.
Precursor :: Precursor (n.) One who, or that which, precedes an event, and indicates its approach; a forerunner; a harbinger..
Runner :: Runner (n.) One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
Antecursor :: Antecursor (n.) A forerunner; a precursor.
Runner :: Runner (n.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.
Footman :: Footman (n.) Formerly, a servant who ran in front of his master's carriage; a 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..
Runner :: Runner (n.) A detective.
Baptist :: Baptist (n.) One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ..
Jumper :: "Jumper (n.) A rude kind of sleigh; -- usually, a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills..
Sarment :: Sarment (n.) A prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawberry. See Runner..
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..
Goer :: Goer (n.) One who, or that which, goes; a runner or walker.
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..
Float :: Float (v. i.) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
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