racer

noun

One that takes part in a race.

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A vehicle used in racing.

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Any of various fast-moving colubrid snakes of several genera, especially Coluber.

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Same as race-plate.

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In the Southern States, applied to the corn-snake, Callopeltis getulus, a large harmless snake of a reddish-brown color with redder markings.

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One who races; a runner or contestant in a race or in races of any kind.

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A race-horse.

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Hence, anything having great speed.

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In a braiding-machine, a traversing support for tension and spool-holding apparatus.

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A snake of the genus Scotophis (or Coluber), S. obsoletus, also called pilot black-snake or pilot-snake, It is black, with a mottled black and yellow belly, and has the median dorsal scales carinated.