runner Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun someone who imports or exports without paying duties
    contrabandist; smuggler; moon curser; moon-curser.
  2. noun someone who travels on foot by running
  3. noun a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents
    • he sent a runner over with the contract
  4. noun a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)
    base runner.
  5. noun a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
    stolon; offset.
  6. noun a trained athlete who competes in foot races
  7. noun (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play
    ball carrier.
  8. noun a long narrow carpet
  9. noun device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along
  10. noun fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil
    Caranx crysos; blue runner.

WordNet

Run"ner noun
Etymology
From Run.
Definitions
  1. One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
  2. A detective. Slang, Eng. Dickens.
  3. A messenger. Swift.
  4. A smuggler. Colloq. R. North.
  5. One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. Cant, U.S.
  6. (Bot.) 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.
  7. The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
  8. (Naut.) A rope through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle. Totten.
  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. (Founding) (a) 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. (b) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
  11. The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
  12. (Zoöl.) 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.
  13. (Zoöl.) Any cursorial bird.
  14. (Mech.) (a) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone. (b) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.

Webster 1913