Runner

French Meaning

English Meaning

1. Sports One who competes in a race.
2. Baseball One who runs the bases.
3. Football One who carries the ball.
4. A fugitive.
5. One who carries messages or runs errands.
6. One who serves as an agent or collector, as for a bank or brokerage house.
7. One who solicits business, as for a hotel or store.
8. A smuggler: a narcotics runner.
9. A vessel engaged in smuggling.
10. One who operates or manages something: the runner of a series of gambling operations.
11. A device in or on which something slides or moves, as:
12. The blade of a skate.
13. The supports on which a drawer slides.
14. A long narrow carpet.
15. A long narrow tablecloth.
16. A roller towel.
17. Metallurgy A channel along which molten metal is poured into a mold; a gate.
18. Botany A slender creeping stem that puts forth roots from nodes spaced at intervals along its length.
19. Botany A plant, such as the strawberry, having such a stem.
20. Botany A twining vine, such as the scarlet runner.
21. Any of several marine fishes of the family Carangidae, especially the blue runner (Caranx crysos), of temperate waters of the American Atlantic coast. Also called blue runner.
22. Sports See flat1.