Runner

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

A detective.

A messenger.

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; 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 pinnulatus) 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.

someone who imports or exports without paying duties

fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil

a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips