Word Meaning

Meaning of "runner" and the crossword clue

- blade of an ice skate
- Competitor in a race
- Ice skate blade
- Sprinter
- One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
- A detective.
- A messenger.
- A smuggler.
- One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc.
- 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.
- The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
- A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.
- One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
- 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.
- A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
- The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
- 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.
- Any cursorial bird.
- A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
- A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.