Hypertext Webster Gateway: "runner"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Runner \Run"ner\, n. [From {Run}.]
1. One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
2. A detective. [Slang, Eng.] --Dickens.
3. A messenger. --Swift.
4. A smuggler. [Colloq.] --R. North.
5. One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat,
hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.]
6. (Bot.) 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.
7. The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
8. (Naut.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase
the mechanical power of a tackle. --Totten.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Scratch player \Scratch player\, runner \runner\, etc.
One that starts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate
ability.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
runner
n 1: someone who imports or exports without paying duties [syn: {smuggler},
{contrabandist}, {mooncurser}]
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}]
5: a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new
plants from buds at its tips [syn: {stolon}, {offset}]
6: a trained athlete who competes in foot races
7: device consisting of the parts on which something can slide
along
8: fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil [syn: {blue
runner}, {Caranx crysos}]
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