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Meaning of runner

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  runner
      n 1: someone who imports or exports without paying duties [syn:
           {smuggler}, {runner}, {contrabandist}, {moon curser},
           {moon-curser}]
      2: someone who travels on foot by running
      3: a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents;
         "he sent a runner over with the contract"
      4: a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or
         attempting to reach a base) [syn: {base runner}, {runner}]
      5: a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new
         plants from buds at its tips [syn: {stolon}, {runner},
         {offset}]
      6: a trained athlete who competes in foot races
      7: (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance)
         the ball on an offensive play [syn: {ball carrier}, {runner}]
      8: a long narrow carpet
      9: device consisting of the parts on which something can slide
         along
      10: fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil [syn: {runner},
          {blue runner}, {Caranx crysos}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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