Definition of runner

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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.

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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..
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..
Runner :: Runner (n.) One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc..
Stonesmickle :: Stonerunner (n.) The dotterel.
Sarmentaceous :: Sarmentaceous (a.) Bearing sarments, or runners, as the strawberry..
Runner :: Runner (n.) One who, or that which, runs; a racer..
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..
Spray :: Spray (n.) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in all parts of the mold..
Spray :: Spray (n.) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
Skipjack :: Skipjack (n.) A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc..
Spindle :: Spindle (n.) The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.
Forerunner :: Forerunner (n.) A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever..
Pre- :: Pre- () A prefix denoting priority (of time, place, or rank); as, precede, to go before; precursor, a forerunner; prefix, to fix or place before; preeminent eminent before or above others. Pre- is sometimes used intensively, as in prepotent, very potent..
Cursitor :: Cursitor (n.) A courier or runner.
Runner :: Runner (n.) A messenger.
Pung :: Pung (n.) A kind of plain sleigh drawn by one horse; originally, a rude oblong box on runners..
Sow :: Sow (n.) The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.
Frogbit :: Frogbit (n.) A European plant (Hydrocharis Morsus-ranae), floating on still water and propagating itself by runners. It has roundish leaves and small white flowers..
Runner :: Runner (n.) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed..
Runner :: Runner (n.) Any cursorial bird.
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