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Noun runner has 9 senses
- smuggler, runner, contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser - someone who imports or exports without paying duties
--1 is a kind of criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor
--1 has particulars: coyote; gunrunner, arms-runner; rumrunner
- runner - someone who travels on foot by running
--2 is a kind of traveler, traveller
--2 has particulars: jogger
- runner - a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents; "he sent a runner over with the contract"
--3 is a kind of messenger, courier
- base runner, runner - a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)
--4 is a kind of ballplayer, baseball player
- stolon, runner, offset - a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
--5 is a kind of plant organ
- runner - a trained athlete who competes in foot races
--6 is a kind of athlete, jock
--6 has particulars:
- runner - a long narrow carpet
--7 is a kind of rug, carpet, carpeting
- runner - device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along
--8 is a kind of device
--8 is a part of sled, sledge, sleigh
--8 has particulars: blade; ski, skis
- runner, blue runner, Caranx crysos - fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil
--9 is a kind of jack
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