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One who, or that which, runs; a racer. |
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A detective. |
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A messenger. |
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A smuggler. |
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One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat,
hotel, shop, etc. |
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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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The rotating stone of a set of millstones. |
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A rope rove through a block and used to increase the
mechanical power of a tackle. |
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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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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. |
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A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace
to a ladle, mold, or pig bed. |
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The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are
attached. |
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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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Any cursorial bird. |
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A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a
surface of stone. |
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A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for
polishing or grinding. |
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