Meaning

• The smallest animal of a litter.

• (by extension) The smallest child in the family.

  "the runt of the family"

• Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.

• An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.

• 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.

• A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.

  "Neither young poles nor old runts are durable. — Holland."

• A bow.