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racer
Any of several slim, swift, harmless colubrid snakes (genus Coluber), as the American blacksnake
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  1. Any of several slim, swift, harmless colubrid snakes (genus Coluber), as the American blacksnake
  2. A vehicle used in racing.
  3. One that takes part in a race.
entrant
Newcomer
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  1. Newcomer
  2. Participant
  3. A person who enters, esp. one who enters a contest
contestant
A participant in a contest
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  1. A participant in a contest
  2. A person who contests a claim, decision, etc.
  3. One that contests or disputes something, such as an election or a will.
distance runner
A runner who competes in distance races.
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  1. A runner who competes in distance races.
marathoner
Someone who participates in a marathon or other long-distance races.
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  1. Someone who participates in a marathon or other long-distance races.
  2. One that participates in a marathon, especially a marathon runner.
dasher
A person or thing that dashes
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  1. A person or thing that dashes
  2. One that dashes, especially the plunger of an ice-cream freezer.
  3. (Informal) A person full of dash or spirit
jogger
A tracksuit, particularly the trousers.
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  1. A tracksuit, particularly the trousers.
  2. A printing press operator who removes, jogs, and stacks the sheets or signatures of paper.
  3. A person who jogs (as exercise).
trackman
(US) A railway employee who inspects and maintains the permanent way of a railway installation.
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  1. (US) A railway employee who inspects and maintains the permanent way of a railway installation.
  2. A worker employed to maintain or inspect railroad tracks.
  3. A person whose work is laying and repairing railroad tracks
hurdler
An athlete who competes in the hurdling event.
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  1. An athlete who competes in the hurdling event.
messenger
An envoy to another person, party, or government.
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  1. An envoy to another person, party, or government.
  2. (Naut.) A light line tied to a heavier one and used in pulling it as from a ship to a pier
  3. A person employed to carry telegrams, letters, or parcels.
courier
A messenger sent in haste or on a regular schedule with messages, parcels, etc.
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  1. A messenger sent in haste or on a regular schedule with messages, parcels, etc.
  2. An employee of a travel agency serving as a guide for tourists.
  3. A messenger, especially one on official diplomatic business.
postrider
One who rides over a postroad to carry the mails.
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  1. One who rides over a postroad to carry the mails.
  2. Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
  3. (Historical) A person who carried the post, or mail, on horseback
post
An assigned station; a guard post.
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  1. An assigned station; a guard post.
  2. A stage of a post route
  3. (Sports) A goal post.
express
A method or service for transporting goods or sending money or mail rapidly, but at extra cost
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  1. A method or service for transporting goods or sending money or mail rapidly, but at extra cost
  2. A business concern operating such a service
  3. An express train, bus, elevator, etc.
tendril
(Botany) A thin, spirally coiling stem that attaches a plant to its support.
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  1. (Botany) A thin, spirally coiling stem that attaches a plant to its support.
  2. A twisting, slender structure by which a plant, such as a grape or cucumber, twines around and often climbs an object or another plant.
  3. A threadlike part of a climbing plant, often in a spiral form, supporting it by clinging to or coiling around an object
branch
Anything physically resembling a branch, as a tine of a deer's antler
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  1. Anything physically resembling a branch, as a tine of a deer's antler
  2. An area of specialized skill or knowledge, especially academic or vocational, that is related to but separate from other areas:
  3. Any woody extension growing from the trunk or main stem, or from a main limb, of a tree or shrub
offshoot
Something that branches out or derives its existence or origin from a particular source.
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  1. Something that branches out or derives its existence or origin from a particular source.
  2. A branch, descendant, or member of a family or social group.
  3. Anything that branches off, or derives from, a main source; specif., a shoot or stem growing laterally from the main stem of a plant
bearer
A person presenting for payment a check, note, money order, etc.
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  1. A person presenting for payment a check, note, money order, etc.
  2. One that holds a check or other redeemable note for payment.
  3. A person in possession of a negotiable instrument, document of title, security, or other similar document that is marked “payable to bearer” or is indorsed in blank. Depending upon its nature, the document is called a bearer bond, bearer instrument, bearer paper, or the like and, if it is for the payment of money, it is said to be payable to bearer. A person in possession of a negotiable instrument, document of title, security, or other similar document that is marked “payable to bearer” or is indorsed in blank. Depending upon its nature, the document is called a bearer bond, bearer instrument, bearer paper, or the like and, if it is for the payment of money, it is said to be payable to bearer.
carrier
A plastic cage or basket, a nylon bag, etc., designed for transporting a pet
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  1. A plastic cage or basket, a nylon bag, etc., designed for transporting a pet
  2. Aircraft carrier
  3. A messenger or porter
conveyer
(Rare) Alternative spelling of conveyor.
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  1. (Rare) Alternative spelling of conveyor.
courier
A messenger, especially one on official diplomatic business.
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  1. A messenger, especially one on official diplomatic business.
  2. An employee of a travel agency serving as a guide for tourists.
  3. A messenger sent in haste or on a regular schedule with messages, parcels, etc.
envoy
A representative of a government who is sent on a special diplomatic mission.
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  1. A representative of a government who is sent on a special diplomatic mission.
  2. A messenger; agent
  3. Messenger
messenger
An envoy to another person, party, or government.
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  1. An envoy to another person, party, or government.
  2. (Naut.) A light line tied to a heavier one and used in pulling it as from a ship to a pier
  3. A person employed to carry telegrams, letters, or parcels.
contrabandist
A dealer in contraband.
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  1. A dealer in contraband.
  2. A person who trades in contraband goods; smuggler
smuggler
One who smuggles things.
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  1. One who smuggles things.
  2. A vessel employed in smuggling.
bine
The flexible twining or climbing stem of certain plants, such as the hop, woodbine, or bindweed.
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  1. The flexible twining or climbing stem of certain plants, such as the hop, woodbine, or bindweed.
  2. A plant having such stems
  3. (Botany) A climbing plant which climbs by its shoots growing in a helix around a support (distinct from a vine, which climbs using tendrils or suckers).
offshoot
A branch, descendant, or member of a family or social group.
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  1. A branch, descendant, or member of a family or social group.
  2. Something that branches out or derives its existence or origin from a particular source.
  3. Anything that branches off, or derives from, a main source; specif., a shoot or stem growing laterally from the main stem of a plant
shoot
Action or motion like that of something shot, as of water from a hose
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  1. Action or motion like that of something shot, as of water from a hose
  2. A body of ore in a vein, usually elongated and vertical or steeply inclined
  3. The part of a vascular plant that is above ground, including the stem and leaves. The tips of shoots contain the apical meristem .
sprig
(Archaic) A young, immature person.
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  1. (Archaic) A young, immature person.
  2. A person as the offspring or scion of a family, institution, class, etc.
  3. A small shoot or twig of a plant.
sprout
Such a growth from the germinating seed of any of various plants, as alfalfa or mung beans, eaten as a vegetable, as in salads or Asian dishes
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  1. Such a growth from the germinating seed of any of various plants, as alfalfa or mung beans, eaten as a vegetable, as in salads or Asian dishes
  2. Something like or suggestive of a sprout, as an offshoot or young person
  3. A young growth on a plant, as a stem or branch; shoot
tendril
A threadlike part of a climbing plant, often in a spiral form, supporting it by clinging to or coiling around an object
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  1. A threadlike part of a climbing plant, often in a spiral form, supporting it by clinging to or coiling around an object
  2. A twisting, slender structure by which a plant, such as a grape or cucumber, twines around and often climbs an object or another plant.
  3. (Botany) A thin, spirally coiling stem that attaches a plant to its support.
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  • He had, further, a noble bearing and majestic walk, a frame capable of enduring any amount of fatigue, and is said to have been "the best shot, the best spearman, the best runner, and the best horseman in Abyssinia."

  • The plant has a climbing habit like the scarlet runner, and attains a height of about 50 ft.

  • The Texas screech-owl, the Texas woodpecker, and the road runner, or ground cuckoo, are found mostly in southern and south-western Texas.

  • The two together formed a totally incompatible combination, yet Josh Mulligan, at least according to the curmudgeons, was a runner, too.

  • Some of its characteristic mammals and birds are the long-eared desert fox, four-toed kangaroo rats, Sonoran pocket mice, big-eared and tiny white-haired bats, road runner, cactus wren, canyon wren, desert thrashers, hooded oriole, black-throated desert sparrow, Texas night-hawk and Gambels quail.

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