Hypertext Webster Gateway: "battler"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Batteler \Bat"tel*er\, Battler \Bat"tler\, n. [See 2d {Battel},
n.]
A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the
buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he
called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge.
--Wright.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
battler
n : someone who fights (or is fighting) [syn: {combatant}, {belligerent},
{fighter}, {scrapper}]
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