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.
battler
n : someone who fights (or is fighting) [syn: {combatant}, {belligerent},
{fighter}, {scrapper}]