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Runner

noun

Someone who imports or exports without paying duties. Synonyms: contrabandist, moon-curser, moon curser, smuggler.

Someone who travels on foot by running.

A person who is employed to deliver messages or documents.

A baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base). Synonym: base runner.

A horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips. Synonyms: offset, stolon.

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: ball carrier.

A long narrow carpet.

Device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along.

10.

Fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil. Synonyms: blue runner, Caranx crysos.

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"Runner" Quotes from Famous Books

... had hardly crossed my mind when I heard by the difference of the sound that the runner had turned the corner, and that his goal was beyond all question the ...

— The Mystery of Cloomber • Arthur Conan Doyle

... asked the cabman how long he had been driving, whether it was difficult to drive at night, and whether it was true he could only see his horse's ears; and I think she asked if he had any children, but of that I am not quite sure. If she didn't, it was a lapse of memory on her part. Even the cab-runner interested her. Hadn't I noticed what a sad face ...

— The Professional Aunt • Mary C.E. Wemyss

... number of blankets and other articles change hands on the result of pony races, foot races or any other species of excitement that can be invented. There is a white man on the ground who is, no doubt, a professional runner, and the Indians back their favorite against him in a purse of over $30.00, which the white man covers, and wins the race by a few inches. The Indians will not give up, and make similar purses on the two succeeding days, only ...

— My Native Land • James Cox

... one sledge at a time, and sometimes carrying forward the stores separately and going back for the sledges. Two days more gave them eight miles more, but on the seventh day on this narrow strait, the dragging being a little better, the great sledge slipped off a smooth hummock, broke one runner to smash, ...

— If, Yes and Perhaps - Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact • Edward Everett Hale

... fact, we had orders not to move around in the daytime. But after the balloons were gone we could go about with comparative freedom. Even one man would attract the attention of these German eyes. Our old boy, Charlie Pound, was a runner or dispatch carrier between the front line and Headquarters, and he often came up to see us when we were in the line. One day he said, "There's a fat Fritzie in that balloon that I'd like to get my hands on; ...

— Into the Jaws of Death • Jack O'Brien

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