Runner \Run"ner\, n. [From Run.]
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 rove through a block and used to increase
the mechanical power of a tackle. --Totten.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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