Runner : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Runner	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Runner
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
runner n someone who imports or exports without paying duties [syn: smuggler, runner, contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser] someone who travels on foot by running a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents; "he sent a runner over with the contract" a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base) Synonym(s): base runner, runner a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips Synonym(s): stolon, runner, offset a trained athlete who competes in foot races (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play Synonym(s): ball carrier, runner a long narrow carpet device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil Synonym(s): runner, blue runner, Caranx crysos
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scratch player \Scratch player\, runner \runner\, etc. One that starts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate ability.