runner
['rʌnә]
n. 跑者, 赛跑者, 送, 走私船, 操者, 滑槽

[] 碾碎; 压碎

[] 款(银等), 走私者, 推销



runner
[ noun ]

1. someone who imports or exports without paying duties

<noun.person>

2. someone who travels on foot by running

<noun.person>

3. a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents

<noun.person>
he sent a runner over with the contract

4. a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)

<noun.person>

5. a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips

<noun.plant>

6. a trained athlete who competes in foot races

<noun.person>

7. (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play

<noun.person>

8. a long narrow carpet

<noun.artifact>

9. device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along

<noun.artifact>

10. fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil

<noun.animal>

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.

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

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

12. (Zo["o]l.) 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.

13. (Zo["o]l.) Any cursorial bird.

14. (Mech.)
(a) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or
polishing a surface of stone.
(b) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for
polishing or grinding.