Crossword clues for battler
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 One who wages battle against an enemy; a soldier; a general. 2 (context Australian dated English) An itinerant worker or unemployed person. 3 One who who works hard in the face of adversity. Etymology 2
n. (alternative form of batteler English)
WordNet
n. someone who fights (or is fighting) [syn: combatant, belligerent, fighter, scrapper]
Wikipedia
A battler is an Australian colloquialism referring to "ordinary" or working class individuals who persevere through their commitments despite adversity. Typically, this adversity comprises the challenges of low pay, family commitments, environmental hardships and lack of personal recognition. It is a term of respect and endearment intended to empower and recognize those who feel as though they exist at the bottom of society. The term has seen recent use in mainstream politics to describe a demographic section of the Australian people.
Battler may refer to:
- Battler (album), 2009 album
- Battler (underdog), an Australian and New Zealand colloquialism describing a sector of a society
- HMS Battler (D18), an escort aircraft carrier
- Barcode Battler, a handheld gaming console
- " The Battler", a short story by Ernest Hemingway
- Battler Ushiromiya, a character from Umineko no Naku Koro ni.
Battler is a 2009 album from indie-rock artist Gregory Douglass. The first video from the record will be "Cathedrals," as stated on www.gregorydouglass.com
On the record, Gregory experiments with cabaret themes and heavy, striking instrumentation, which is a departure from the piano and guitar work on this previous records. The record features fellow Vermont artists Grace Potter of the Nocturnals, as well as Anais Mitchell.
Usage examples of "battler".
In a trice, the cloaked battler was confronted with a situation that he had scarcely foreseen.
The Shadow had dropped, this forgotten battler had stumbled upon a saber.
The horse was capable of it on his day, and I knew him to be a competent jumper and a willing battler in a close finish.
The Battler fell into a clinch, but the Cyclone broke away and, measuring his distance, picked up a haymaker from the floor and put it over.
After fourteen stormy years the two friends, who more than any others were responsible for the launching of the Third Retch, for its terror and its degradation, who though they had often disagreed had stood together in the moments of crisis and defeats and disappointments, had come to a parting of the ways, and the scar-faced, brawling battler for Hitler and Nazism had come to the end of his violent life.
From a sullen, disgruntled crook, he became the murderous battler that he had been before.
As if to demonstrate her prowess as a battler, she freed her hands and beat at his chest.
The Battler fell into a clinch, but the Cyclone broke away and, measuring his distance, picked up a haymaker from the floor and put it over.
If Ted was anything, he was a battler, and he called upon his immense Polish ferocity to wage the most important fight of his life.
As if to demonstrate her prowess as a battler, she freed her hands and beat at his chest.
All three battlers were within range, now, but it was imperative that they achieve both high coordination and high precision in their attack.
One of the battlers had been destroyed, a second so badly damaged that it might well be useful only as salvage.
Information retained during my period of semir-dormant captivity indicates that these are ground battlers, high-speed tanks massing perhaps 4,000 tons apiece, with particle cannons in quad or quint hull-mounted arrays.
She was well dressed, in a casual way, and Malone wondered if she looked as elegant as this, Monday to Friday, when handing out comfort and advice to the battlers.
Life was getting tough for the battlers, even the middle-class yuppies.