Crossword-Solution: RUNNER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Runner | n. | One who, or that which, runs; a racer. |
| Runner | n. | A detective. |
| Runner | n. | A messenger. |
| Runner | n. | A smuggler. |
| Runner | n. | One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. |
| Runner | 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. |
| Runner | n. | The rotating stone of a set of millstones. |
| Runner | n. | A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle. |
| Runner | 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. |
| Runner | 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. |
| Runner | n. | A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed. |
| Runner | n. | The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached. |
| Runner | 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. |
| Runner | n. | Any cursorial bird. |
| Runner | n. | A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone. |
| Runner | n. | A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARTEE
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greedy person
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Sentences with RUNNER (5)
Dick's novel `Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' (the basis for the movie `Blade Runner'), in which a `chickenhead' is a mutant with below-average intelligence.
You may go.” Then she turned to the groom: “My coach and the four swiftest horses in the stables, to be ready at once.” The groom and runner both went quickly off to obey.
With loud cries of savage delight, they broke into a mad run, thinking doubtless that they would soon overhaul the burdened runner; but they both underestimated the powers of the ape-man and overestimated the possibilities of their own short, crooked legs.
She did not know that a runner had been dispatched to the distant village of The Sheik to barter with him for a ransom.
Those whom he pursued were moving rapidly through the jungle which was now becoming more and more open, but the Chinaman was no mean runner, and it was not long before he drew within sight of the object of his pursuit.
Quotes with RUNNER (3)
A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon runner. Serendipity and blind faith faith in yourself won't hurt a thing. All the bastards in the world will snicker and sneer because they haven't the talent to zip up their flies by themselves. To hell with them, particularly the critics. Stand in there, son, no matter how badly you are battered and hurt.
It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else. We can enjoy every moment of movement, as long as where we are is as good as where we'd like to be. That's not to say that you need to be satisfied forever with where you are today. But you need to honor what you've accomplished, rather t…
If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYM, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 64 times in crossword archives (1944–2024).