Runner

n.	1.	One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
	2.	A detective.
	3.	A messenger.
	4.	A smuggler.
	5.	One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc.
	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 rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.
	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 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.
	11.	The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
	12.	(Zool.) 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.
	13.	(Zool.) Any cursorial bird.
	14.	(Mech.) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.

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

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