Crossword clues for tackler
Wiktionary
n. 1 A footballer who tackles another. 2 (context weaving dated British English) A person who repairs weaving looms.
WordNet
n. a football player who tackles the ball carrier
Wikipedia
A tackler was a supervisor in a textile factory responsible for the working of a number of power looms and the weavers who operated them. The title derived from the job, which was to "tackle" any mechanical problems encountered with the looms in their charge. Invariably male, they had a reputation for gullibility and were the butt of many jokes.
Usage examples of "tackler".
Ki-Gor hit him low on the side, like a football tackler, heaving upward with his shoulders as he clasped the Maldean around the waist.
And bullets were harder to dodge than any tackler who had ever come after him.
A huge Hanover tackler missed him, got a hand on his leg, and Kuttner spun around, staggering three steps and then went down under a rib-cracking tackle from Speed Burtson.
His eyes narrowed a little as they often did when he saw an opposing tackler start toward him.
Hagan who could fail to open a hole, who could let a tackler by him, who could run too slowly and block out one of his own players.
The man who goes in against an experienced tackler, ignorant of the means of protecting himself, receives punishment so severe as to give him a completely erroneous idea of the game.
It was then that The Shadow gave his tackler a further fling and came up, gun in hand, to meet a somewhat dazed opponent who had a revolver, but who was slow in bringing it to aim.
He flung himself like a diving football tackler at the knees of The Shadow.
Officer Charles and his partner watching me run the length of the field, watching me make fools of the tacklers, watching me score.
Then, when the Benton tacklers were concentrating on him, the Clay fullback again rammed the ball across the goal line.
Neil Michaels moved through the crowds of soldiers and sailors and gawking civilians like a halfback evading tacklers and heading downfield.
Coach Schuler slams his hat to the ground as Jack spins right and comes all the way back to the near side of the field, eluding tacklers, not to mention his own running backs.
Any time he had the ball he was a holy terror, juking, dancing, stutter-stepping, eluding tacklers when he had to, lowering a shoulder into em otherwise.
Stone alcoholics are like Barry Sanders, they just keep bouncing off of tacklers and switching directions on their way toward the End Zone of Life, where a TD is simply an acronym for Tragic Death.
They went through the doorway like tacklers, slammed into the floor, tangled, lost their swords, scrambled up, broke apart, and lunged back toward each other like worlags.