Scrabble?! RUNNER

Definitions of RUNNER in various dictionaries:

noun - someone who imports or exports without paying duties

noun - someone who travels on foot by running

noun - a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents

noun - a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)

noun - a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips

noun - a trained athlete who competes in foot races

noun - (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play

noun - a long narrow carpet

noun - device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along

noun - fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil

One who competes in a race.

One who runs the bases.

One who carries the ball.

A fugitive.

One who carries messages or runs errands.

One who serves as an agent or a collector, as for a bank or brokerage house.

One who solicits business, as for a hotel or store.

A smuggler: a narcotics runner.

A vessel engaged in smuggling.

One who operates or manages something: the runner of a series of gambling operations.

The blade of a skate.

The supports on which a drawer slides.

A long narrow carpet.

A long narrow tablecloth.

A roller towel.

Metallurgy.

Botany.

A slender, creeping stem that puts forth roots from nodes spaced at intervals along its length.

A plant, such as the strawberry, having such a stem.

A twining vine, such as the scarlet runner.

Any of several marine fishes of the family Carangidae, especially the blue runner (Caranx crysos), of temperate waters of the American Atlantic coast.

See flat1 (n.

verb - to move by rapid steps