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(), 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. (Zol.) A food Scratch player runner, etc.} One that starts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate ability. スポンサード リンク
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