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ˈunder-ˌrunner
[under-1 4 a, b, 10 b.]
1. Printing. (See quot. 1888.)
1882Southward Pract. Printing (1884) 249 Underrunners..are very unsightly and should be avoided. 1888Jacobi Printers' Vocab., Under runners, continuation of side-notes run under the foot of the page in a similar manner to a foot⁓note.
2. Cricket. A batsman who makes too few runs for his hits.
1903Windsor Mag. Sept. 394/1 Marshall, a confirmed under-runner at the best, was so nervous..that he crawled between the wickets.
3. A subterranean stream. N.Z.
1921H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira v. 34 At last there is created a subterranean stream, or, in shepherd's phrase, an ‘under-runner’. 1949F. Sargeson I saw in my Dream ii. xiv. 211 It had been one of those under-runners, with the opening all grown over with biddy-bid. 1959Mother Earth Jan. 428 On the down (lower) country, the problem is one of water retention rather than erosion, though there are some bad cases of the latter, consisting mainly of ‘under-runners’. |