Meaning of Runt | Babel Free

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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