runner
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5.6
- noun
- /ˈrʌnər/
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- I pulled it along the ground behind me, the horns serving as runners across the snow.
- bottom runner
Examples
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We installed the new runners on the sliding drawer to make it open more easily.
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The sleigh skidded on one runner in the opposite direction.
Fiction book (1996) -
OK, then we can place the runner and do the rest of it.
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Would you stay on the runner, please?
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Stay on the runner, please.
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Would you please stay on the runner?
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And these sides and these runners here I think are going to be box section steel.
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The sled runners scraped as they bit through the hard snow crust.
Fiction book (1993) -
The runners are attached 9.5 inches inward on the two 19-inch forward pipe sections of the top frame.
Academic text (1991) -
The sliding doors rattle as Mo pushes them open on their runners and steps into the darkened warehouse.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
8
5.9
A long flat plank placed under heavy objects to help move them
Compounds
- Archaic
1
9.9
A member of London's first organized police force from the mid 1700s to the early 1800s
A large, fast tropical fish with a blue green back and yellow stripes that people catch for sport
- Australian
A low-growing Australian vine with hairy stems and bright red and pink flowers
How Smooth
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Runner comes from the old word run plus the ending -er meaning 'one or something that moves'. A runner on a drawer or sled is a strip that lets the object 'run' or slide smoothly along its path.