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Meaning of runman | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

A deserter from a ship of war.

historical

Examples

“The problem became so acute that the American ships moved across the bay to Algeziras because the English commanders "have treated us with great indignity and protected runmen, or deserters and refused to give them up and anchored so close as a further inducement for them to swim to the English ships."”

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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