Runt
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ÊŒnt
Full definition of runt
Noun
runt
(plural runts)- The smallest animal of a litter.
- 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.Neither young poles nor old runts are durable. — Holland.