From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Runner \Run"ner\, n. [From {Run}.]
1. One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
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2. A detective. [Slang, Eng.] --Dickens.
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3. A messenger. --Swift.
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4. A smuggler. [Colloq.] --R. North.
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5. One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat,
hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.]
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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.
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7. The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
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8. (Naut.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase
the mechanical power of a tackle. --Totten.
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9. One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also
the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
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10. (Founding)
(a) 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.
(b) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a
furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
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11. The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are
attached.
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12. (Zool.) 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.
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13. (Zool.) Any cursorial bird.
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14. (Mech.)
(a) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or
polishing a surface of stone.
(b) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for
polishing or grinding.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Saurel \Sau"rel\, n. (Zool.)
Any carangoid fish of the genus {Trachurus}, especially
{Trachurus trachurus}, or {Trachurus saurus}, of Europe and
America, and {Trachurus picturatus} of California. Called
also {skipjack}, and {horse mackerel}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Saury \Sau"ry\, n.; pl. {Sauries}. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zool.)
A slender marine fish ({Scomberesox saurus}) of Europe and
America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also
{billfish}, {gowdnook}, {gawnook}, {skipper}, {skipjack},
{skopster}, {lizard fish}, and {Egypt herring}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Skipjack \Skip"jack`\, n.
1. An upstart. [Obs.] --Ford.
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2. (Zool.) An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle.
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3. (Zool.) A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the
common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish,
the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the
runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc.
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4. (Naut.) A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped
cross section.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Jurel \Ju"rel\, n. (Zool.)
A yellow carangoid fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts
({Caranx chrysos}), most abundant southward, where it is
valued as a food fish; -- called also {hardtail}, {horse
crevall['e]}, {jack}, {buffalo jack}, {skipjack}, {yellow
mackerel}, and sometimes, improperly, {horse mackerel}. Other
species of {Caranx} (as {Caranx fallax}) are also sometimes
called jurel. Juridic
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bluefish \Blue"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
1. A large voracious fish ({Pomatomus saitatrix}), of the
family {Carangid[ae]}, valued as a food fish, and widely
distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and
Rhode Island coast it is called the {horse mackerel}, in
Virginia {saltwater tailor}, or {skipjack}.
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2. A West Indian fish ({Platyglossus radiatus}), of the
family {Labrid[ae]}.
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Note: The name is applied locally to other species of fishes;
as the cunner, sea bass, squeteague, etc.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bonito \Bo*ni"to\ (b[-o]*n[=e]"t[-o]), n.; pl. {Bonitoes}
(-t[-o]z). [Sp. & Pg. bonito, fr. Ar. bain[imac]t and
bain[imac]th.] [Often incorrectly written {bonita}.] (Zool.)
1. A large tropical fish ({Orcynus pelamys}) allied to the
tunny. It is about three feet long, blue above, with four
brown stripes on the sides. It is sometimes found on the
American coast.
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2. any of a variety of scombroid fishes of the genera {Sarda}
or {Euthynnus}, with a size intermediate between those of
the smaller mackerels and the tunas. It is applied
especially to the {skipjack tuna} ({Euthynnus pelamis},
syn. {Katsuwonus pelamis}, formerly {Sarda Mediterranea},
also called {skipjack}) of the Atlantic, an important and
abundant food fish on the coast of the United States, and
({Sarda Chilensis}) of the Pacific, and other related
species. These are large and active fishes, of a blue
color above and silver below, with black oblique stripes.
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3. The medregal ({Seriola fasciata}), an edible fish of the
southern part of the United States and the West Indies.
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4. The cobia or crab eater ({Elacate canada}), an edible fish
of the Middle and Southern United States.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
skipjack
n 1: oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but
less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if not
the same as oceanic bonito [syn: {skipjack}, {skipjack
tuna}, {Euthynnus pelamis}]
2: medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and Pacific
waters; less valued than tuna [syn: {skipjack}, {Atlantic
bonito}, {Sarda sarda}]
3: able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the
air with a clicking sound [syn: {click beetle}, {skipjack},
{snapping beetle}]
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