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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Batteler \Bat"tel*er\, Battler \Bat"tler\, noun [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
battler
noun: someone who fights (or is fighting) [syn: {combatant}, {belligerent}, {fighter}, {scrapper}]
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