RUNNERS
Noun
runners
plural of runner
Noun
runners pl (plural only)
(Canadian, Australian, Irish) running shoes, sneakers, trainers
Proper noun
Runners
plural of Runner
Source: Wiktionary
RUNNER
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