n. - One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
n. - A detective.
n. - A messenger.
n. - A smuggler.
n. - One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc.
n. - 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.
n. - The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
n. - A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.
n. - One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
n. - 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.
n. - A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
n. - The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
n. - 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.
n. - Any cursorial bird.
n. - A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
n. - A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.
- One that starts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate ability.