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run1 verb Past tense of run. [OED dates this usage from the 16th century]
1795 (in 1919 DeWitt Sevier Journal 174) (Jan 25) Washington & John Fickee carried horses to Jonesbo[rough] That run away from Sevier & Ruthy. 1844 Willnotah Ms 15 His friends run out to see the site but could see nothing. 1884 Smith Arp Scrap Book 78 At the first crack of the whip they ... got loose and run away. 1922 TN CW Ques 1019 (Blount Co TN) My father was a shoemaker by trade and run his own shop. 1939 Hall Coll (Little Cataloochee NC) Johnny run to the fence and jumped the fence and never, never knocked a rail off, and it was about a eight-foot rail fence. 1953 Atwood Verbs East US 20 Run ... is used by from two thirds (Pa.) to over nine tenths (W.Va.) of Type I informanst [i.e. older speakers having little formal education] and by from one third (Pa.) to one half (W.Va. and Md.) of Type II [i.e. younger speakers having more formal education]. In Va. and N.C. run is used by nearly all the informants of both Type I [i.e. older speakers having little formal education] and Type II [i.e. younger speakers having moree formal education]. 1979 Big South Fork OHP-27 We went from there down to the Beatty Well on Picklety Creek that run into the Big South Fork.
run2 verb Of a hunter or hunting dog: to drive or chase (a game animal).
1927 Mason Lure of Smokies 231 Dogs ain’t fit fer nothin’ but runnin’ deer an’ killin’ sheep. 1956 Hall Coll (Raccoon Creek NC) The dogs begin running the coons. 1970 Hunting 14 When he got a new dog, he’d take him out, and whatever he ran, why, “that’s what kind’a dog it’uz goin’ to be.” 1996 Isbell Last Shivaree 12 That beagle’d run anything that makes a track—any kind of rabbit, groundhog, possum ... he’d run another dog’s track.
run verb
2 To distill (whiskey).
1939 Hall Coll (Newport TN) We used fifty pounds of sugar to a bushel of meal and ran it off a dozen times or so. 1989 Smith Flyin’ Bullets 333 The “silver cloud” stills were big aluminum pots that held five or six hundred gallons. They just ran whiskey off on one worm. We would bring all the copper stills in but we cut down and destroy [sic] all the silver clouds.