yellowtail

yellowtail
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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  • Yellowtail — Yellowtail, Yellow tail, or Yellow tailed may refer to:*Yellowtail (fish) *Yellow Tail (wine), an Australian wine *Yellow tail, a European moth *Yellow tailed Black Cockatoo, large cockatoo native to the south east of Australia *Yellow tailed… …   Wikipedia

  • yellowtail — [yel′ō tāl΄] n. pl. yellowtails or yellowtail ☆ 1. any of a genus (Seriola) of large, marine, food and game jack fishes; esp., a species ( S. lalandei) of the Pacific ☆ 2. any of various other fishes having a yellowish tail, as the yellowtail… …   English World dictionary

  • Yellowtail — Yel low*tail , n. (Zo[ o]l.) (a) Any one of several species of marine carangoid fishes of the genus {Seriola}; especially, the large California species ({Seriola dorsalis}) which sometimes weighs thirty or forty pounds, and is highly esteemed as… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • yellowtail — /yel oh tayl /, n., pl. yellowtails, (esp. collectively) yellowtail. 1. a game fish, Seriola lalandei, of California. 2. Also called yellowtail snapper. a small West Indian snapper, Ocyurus chrysurus. 3. See yellowtail flounder. 4. any of several …   Universalium

  • yellowtail — noun (plural yellowtail or yellowtails) Date: 1709 any of various fishes having a yellow or yellowish tail: as a. any of several carangid fishes (genus Seriola); especially a food and sport fish (S. lalandi) of the Pacific and Indian oceans… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • yellowtail — /ˈjɛloʊteɪl / (say yelohtayl) noun (plural yellowtail or yellowtails) 1. → yellowtail kingfish. 2. a small carangid fish, Trachurus declivis, with yellowish fins and prominent scutes found in southern Australian and New Zealand waters. 3. any of… …  

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  • yellowtail — Mademoiselle Ma de*moi selle , n.; pl. {Mesdemoiselles}. [F., fr. ma my, f. of mon + demoiselle young lady. See {Damsel}.] 1. A French title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss. Goldsmith. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • yellowtail — Sailor Sail or, n. One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman. [1913 Webster] Syn: Mariner; seaman; seafarer.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • yellowtail — n. marine fish with a yellow tail found in California; type of yellow snapper; yellowtail flounder; type of other fishes with a yellow caudal fin …   English contemporary dictionary

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