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runner about
runner about n. Obsolete (usu. depreciative) a wanderer, a rover; spec. an itinerant seller of supposed medicines and remedies; a mountebank; cf. sense 1e, runabout n. 1a.
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c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. x. 107 (MED) Men þat Cunne mony Craftes..Þruft or þeodam with hem selden is I-seye..Poul þe Apostel In his pistel wrot In ensaumple of suche Rennars a-boute.
?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 109v, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Renner(e Renners aboute fro house to hous..& fro towne to towne..seme þat þei kunne hele of alle maner sekenesse of þe yȝen.
1449 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 36/1 Gif thar be ony that makis thaim fulis that ar nocht bardis or sic lik vtheris rynnaris aboute.
1574 G. Baker tr. Composition Oleum Magistrale f. 43 Among the common Runners about (which use to cut for the stone and Ruptures) is used a great abuse.
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem ii. f. 135v Feinȝied fooles, bairdis, r[y]nners about,..may be hanged.
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