runners
plural of runner
runners pl (plural only)
(Canadian, Australian, Irish) running shoes, sneakers, trainers
Runners
plural of Runner
Source: Wiktionary
Run"ner, n. Etym: [From Run.]
1. One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
2. A detective. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.
3. A messenger. Swift.
4. A smuggler. [Colloq.] R. North.
5. One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.]
6. (Bot.)
Definition: 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.)
Definition: A rope through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle. Totten.
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.
10. (Founding) (a) 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. (b) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
11. The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
12. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatis) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water.
13. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any cursorial bird.
14. (Mech.) (a) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone. (b) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 November 2024
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
Wordscapes is a popular word game consistently in the top charts of both Google Play Store and Apple App Store. The Android version has more than 10 million installs. This guide will help you get more coins in less than two minutes of playing the game. Continue reading Wordscapes: Get More Coins