runt

  1. Noun.  The smallest animal of a litter.
  2. Noun.  Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.
  3. Noun.  (computing) An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
  4. Noun.  (typography) A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
  5. Noun.  A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
  6. Noun.  (obsolete, UK) A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.

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