01 n. One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
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One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
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A detective.[Slang, Eng.]
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A messenger.
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A smuggler.[Colloq.]
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One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc.[Cant, U.S.]
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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.(Bot.)
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The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
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A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.(Naut.)
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One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
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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.(Founding)
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The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
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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.(Zool.) Also: skipjack, shoemaker, yellowtail
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Any cursorial bird.(Zool.)
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A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.(Mech.)