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runt - What does it mean?

Definition of 'runt'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The smallest animal of a litter, or,
  • The smallest child in the family, as in "the runt of the family."
  • Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.
  • (computing) An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
  • (typography) A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
  • A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
  • (obsolete|UK|dialect) A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.
  • (Halliwell)
    Neither young poles nor old runts are durable. — Holland.

    Anagrams

    * turn ----

    Similar to 'runt'

    rent, rant, remit, ront, riant, remet, rynt, ramet