a person, animal, or thing that runs, esp. as a racer.

a messenger.

a messenger of a bank or brokerage house.

Baseball . base runner.

Football . 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. Compare bed stone .

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.

Metallurgy . 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.

Ichthyology . a jurel, Caranx crysos, inhabiting waters from Cape Cod to Brazil.

Building Trades . a horizontal longitudinal timber resting upon the uprights of a staging and supporting the footing pieces.

Theater . 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.

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