shoemaker

shoemaker
Runner Run"ner, n. [From {Run}.] 1. One who, or that which, runs; a racer. [1913 Webster]

2. A detective. [Slang, Eng.] --Dickens. [1913 Webster]

3. A messenger. --Swift. [1913 Webster]

4. A smuggler. [Colloq.] --R. North. [1913 Webster]

5. One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.] [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

7. The rotating stone of a set of millstones. [1913 Webster]

8. (Naut.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle. --Totten. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

11. The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached. [1913 Webster]

12. (Zo["o]l.) 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. [1913 Webster]

13. (Zo["o]l.) Any cursorial bird. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]


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  • Shoemaker — ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Ann Shoemaker (1891–1978), US amerikanische Schauspielerin Bill Shoemaker (1931–2003), US amerikanischer Jockey Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker (* 1929), US amerikanische Astronomin Charles Frederick… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Shoemaker — Shoe mak er, n. 1. One whose occupation it is to make shoes and boots. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zo[ o]l.) (a) The threadfish. (b) The runner, 12. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • shoemaker — ► NOUN ▪ a person who makes shoes and other footwear as a profession …   English terms dictionary

  • shoemaker — [sho͞omāk΄ər] n. a person whose business is making or repairing shoes shoemaking n …   English World dictionary

  • shoemaker — shoemaking, n. /shooh may keuhr/, n. a person who makes or mends shoes. [1350 1400; ME; see SHOE, MAKER] * * * (as used in expressions) Shoemaker Bill William Lee Shoemaker Willie Shoemaker Shoemaker Levy 9 * * * …   Universalium

  • Shoemaker — /shooh may keuhr/, n. William Lee (Willie), born 1931, U.S. jockey. * * * (as used in expressions) Shoemaker Bill William Lee Shoemaker Willie Shoemaker Shoemaker Levy 9 * * * …   Universalium

  • Shoemaker — (as used in expressions) Shoemaker, Bill Willie Shoemaker William Lee Shoemaker Shoemaker Levy 9 …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • shoemaker — UK [ˈʃuːˌmeɪkə(r)] / US [ˈʃuˌmeɪkər] noun [countable] Word forms shoemaker : singular shoemaker plural shoemakers someone whose job is to make or repair shoes …   English dictionary

  • Shoemaker — /ˈʃumeɪkə/ (say shoohmaykuh) noun 1. Carolyn Spellman, born 1929, US astronomer. 2. her husband, Gene (Eugene Merle Shoemaker), 1928–97, US astronomer; with his wife and David Levy discovered many comets, including Shoemaker Levy 9 which hit the… …  

  • shoemaker — [[t]ʃu͟ːmeɪkə(r)[/t]] shoemakers N COUNT A shoemaker is a person whose job is making shoes and boots …   English dictionary

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