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Word of the Day: Catachrestical

Runner [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One that runs; that which runs.

2. A racer.

3. A messenger.

4. A shooting sprig.

5. In every root there will be one runner with little buds on it.

6. One of the stones of a mill.

7. A bird.

8. A thick rope used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.

Runner [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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. 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. 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. 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. A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.

12. The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.

13. 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.

14. Any cursorial bird.

15. A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.

16. A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.