Runt

Definitions

1. The smallest animal of a litter.
2. The smallest child in the family.
   broadly
3. Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.
4. An uninfluential or unimportant person; a nobody.
   slang
5. An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
6. A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
7. A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
8. A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.
   UK, dialectal, obsolete
9. A bow.

Equivalents

Examples

“Sometimes, as we have⟳ seen, one member of a litter is a runt, much smaller than the rest⟳. He is unable to fight⟳ for food as strongly as the rest⟳, and runts often die⟳. We have⟳ considered the conditions under which it would actually pay⟳ a mother to let⟳ a runt die⟳.”

“the runt of the family”

“Neither young poles nor old runts are durable”

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