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}]