<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a person, animal, or thing that runs, especially as a racer.</li><li>a messenger.</li><li>a messenger of a bank or brokerage house.</li><li>Baseball: base runner.</li><li>Football: the ball-carrier.</li><li>a person whose business it is to solicit patronage or trade.</li><li>a person acting as collector, agent, or the like, for a bank, broker, etc.</li><li>something in or on which something else runs or moves.</li><li>either of the long, bladelike strips of metal or wood on which a sled or sleigh slides.</li><li>the blade of an ice skate.</li><li>the rotating system of blades driven by the fluid passing through a reaction turbine.</li><li>the rotating member of a pair of millstones.</li><li>a roller on which something moves along.</li><li>Furniture: a sliding piece, as a loper.</li><li>rocker (def 1).</li><li>an operator or manager, as of a machine.</li><li>a long, narrow rug, suitable for a hall or passageway.</li><li>a long, narrow strip of line, embroidery, lace, or the like, placed across a table.</li><li>Botany: a slender stolon that runs along the surface of the ground and sends out roots and leaves at the nodes, as in the strawberry.</li><li>a plant that spreads by such stems.</li><li>Metallurgy: any of the channels through which molten metal flows.</li><li>a smuggler.</li><li>a vessel engaged in smuggling.</li><li>a person who takes, transmits, and often pays off bets for a bookmaker or a numbers pool.</li><li>Ichthyology: a jurel, <em>Caranx crysos</em>, inhabiting waters from Cape Cod to Brazil.</li><li>Building Trades: a horizontal longitudinal timber resting upon the uprights of a staging and supporting the footing pieces.</li><li>Theater: a piece of carpet or matting placed in the wings for deadening offstage sounds.</li><li>a tackle or part of a tackle consisting of a line rove through a single block and fixed at one end.</li></ul>