Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RUN'NER, n. [from run.]

1. One that runs; that which runs.
2. A racer. Dryden.
3. A messenger. Swift.
4. A shooting sprig. In every root there will be one runner, with little buds on it. Mortimer.
5. One of the stones of a mill. Ib.
6. A bird. Ainsworth.
7. A thick rope used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle. Mar. Dict.
8. One of the timbers on which a sled or sleigh slides.