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.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
battler
n : someone who fights (or is fighting) [syn: combatant, belligerent,
fighter, scrapper]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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