Definitions for runner

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runner run·ner

Spelling: [ruhn-er]

IPA: /ˈrʌn ər/

Runner is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in runner (ennrru).

Definitions for runner

noun

1. a person, animal, or thing that runs, especially as a racer.
2. a messenger.
3. a messenger of a bank or brokerage house.
4. Baseball. base runner.
5. Football. the ball-carrier.
6. a person whose business it is to solicit patronage or trade.
7. a person acting as collector, agent, or the like, for a bank, broker, etc.
8. something in or on which something else runs or moves.
9. either of the long, bladelike strips of metal or wood on which a sled or sleigh slides.
10. the blade of an ice skate.
11. the rotating system of blades driven by the fluid passing through a reaction turbine.
12. the rotating member of a pair of millstones. Compare bed stone.
13. a roller on which something moves along.
14. Furniture. a sliding piece, as a loper. rocker (def 1).
15. an operator or manager, as of a machine.
16. a long, narrow rug, suitable for a hall or passageway.
17. a long, narrow strip of line, embroidery, lace, or the like, placed across a table.
18. 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.
19. Metallurgy. any of the channels through which molten metal flows.
20. a smuggler.
21. a vessel engaged in smuggling.
22. a person who takes, transmits, and often pays off bets for a bookmaker or a numbers pool.
23. Ichthyology. a jurel, Caranx crysos, inhabiting waters from Cape Cod to Brazil.
24. Building Trades. a horizontal longitudinal timber resting upon the uprights of a staging and supporting the footing pieces.
25. Theater. a piece of carpet or matting placed in the wings for deadening offstage sounds.
26. a tackle or part of a tackle consisting of a line rove through a single block and fixed at one end.

Origin of runner

Middle English word dating back to 1250-1300; See origin at run, -er¹

Examples for runner

The winner of the first marathon (OK, he was the only runner, but still) died from the effort.

Zachary wound up, eyed the runner, then uncorked a sizzling fastball.

One runner in Houston now has a permanent, hoof-shaped scar in the center of his forehead.

The victors sent the runner Pheidippides to bear the news to Athens.

Some, like Smart Socks, measure strike speed and heel placement for runner trying to get that next PR.

Rick Santorum, the runner up to Mitt Romney in 2012, was at CPAC likely hoping to continue that tradition.

One eye applied to a crack scanned the runner, who stood there alert.

I told you that I knew the Bow Street runner who was in the barouche.

In the south, too, hoop iron or whalebone is used for runner shoeing.

But they saw that the sea was for the swimmer, and the sand for the feet of the runner.