- a person, animal, or thing that runs, especially as a racer.
- a messenger.
- a messenger of a bank or brokerage house.
- base runner.
- the ball-carrier.
- a person whose business it is to solicit patronage or trade.
- a person acting as collector, agent, or the like, for a bank, broker, etc.
- something in or on which something else runs or moves.
- either of the long, bladelike strips of metal or wood on which a sled or sleigh slides.
- the blade of an ice skate.
- the rotating system of blades driven by the fluid passing through a reaction turbine.
- the rotating member of a pair of millstones.
- a roller on which something moves along.
- Furniture.
- a sliding piece, as a loper.
- rocker (def. 1).
- an operator or manager, as of a machine.
- a long, narrow rug, suitable for a hall or passageway.
- a long, narrow strip of line, embroidery, lace, or the like, placed across a table.
- Botany.
- a slender stolon that runs along the surface of the ground and sends out roots and leaves at the nodes, as in the strawberry.
- a plant that spreads by such stems.
- any of the channels through which molten metal flows.
- a smuggler.
- a vessel engaged in smuggling.
- a person who takes, transmits, and often pays off bets for a bookmaker or a numbers pool.
- a jurel, Caranx crysos, inhabiting waters from Cape Cod to Brazil.
- a horizontal longitudinal timber resting upon the uprights of a staging and supporting the footing pieces.
- a piece of carpet or matting placed in the wings for deadening offstage sounds.
- a tackle or part of a tackle consisting of a line rove through a single block and fixed at one end.
- a person who runs, esp an athlete
- a messenger for a bank or brokerage firm
- an employee of an art or antique dealer who visits auctions to bid on desired lots
- a person engaged in the solicitation of business
- a person on the run; fugitive
- a person or vessel engaged in smuggling; smuggler
- (in combination)
- a person who operates, manages, or controls something
- either of the strips of metal or wood on which a sledge runs
- the blade of an ice skate
- a roller or guide for a sliding component
- a channel through which molten material enters a casting or moulding
- the rotating element of a water turbine
- another name for running belay
- any of various carangid fishes of temperate and tropical seas, such as Caranx crysos (blue runner) of American Atlantic waters
- botany
- a slender stem with very long internodes, as of the strawberry, that arches down to the ground and propagates by producing roots and shoots at the nodes or tip
- a plant that propagates in this way
- a strip of lace, linen, etc, placed across a table, dressing table, etc for protection and decoration
- a narrow rug or carpet, as for a passage
- another word for rocker (def. 3)
- to run away in order to escape trouble or to avoid paying for something
