1.One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
2.A detective. (Slang, Eng.)
5.One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. (Cant, U.S.)
6.(Bot.) 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.The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
8.(Naut.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.
9.One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
11.The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
12.(Zool.) 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.
13.(Zool.) Any cursorial bird.
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