runt

noun9

1. •
   The smallest animal of a litter.
2. •
   The smallest child in the family.
3. •
   Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.
4. •
   (slang) An uninfluential or unimportant person; a nobody.
5. •
   An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
6. •
   A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
7. •
   A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
8. •
   A bow.
9. •
   (dialect, no longer used) A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.

   • Neither young poles nor old runts are durable — 1601