1. (n.) One who, or that which, runs; a racer.

2. (n.) A detective.

3. (n.) A messenger.

4. (n.) A smuggler.

5. (n.) One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc.

6. (n.) 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. (n.) The rotating stone of a set of millstones.

8. (n.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.

9. (n.) 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. (n.) 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. (n.) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.

12. (n.) The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.

13. (n.) 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. (n.) Any cursorial bird.

15. (n.) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.

16. (n.) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.

Thesaurus Entries