runner

runner is a 6-letter English word with 26 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who, or that which, runs; a racer. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 9 · 26 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
2. noun. A detective.
3. noun. A messenger.
4. noun. A smuggler.
5. noun. One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc.
6. noun. 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. noun. The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
8. noun. A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.
9. noun. 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. noun. 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.
11. noun. A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
12. noun. The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
13. noun. 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.
14. noun. Any cursorial bird.
15. noun. A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
16. noun. A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.
17. noun. fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil
18. noun. device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along
19. noun. a long narrow carpet
20. noun. (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play
21. noun. a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)
22. noun. a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents

    "he sent a runner over with the contract"

23. noun. someone who travels on foot by running
24. noun. a trained athlete who competes in foot races
25. noun. someone who imports or exports without paying duties

    Synonyms: contrabandist, smuggler

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

    Synonyms: offset, stolon

Synonyms

contrabandist, smuggler, offset, stolon

Common word forms

runners

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