battler

[BATTELER.] * bătt-lět, s. [BATLET.] * băt'-tling (1), * bat-ling, *bat'-le-ing (le=el), pr. par. [BATTLE (1), v., BATTEL, v.] bătt'-ling (2), pr . par ., adj ., & 8. [BATTLE (2), v.] The act or operation of fighting, in a literal or figurative sense; contest, fight, struggle. "The livid Fury spread She blaz'd in omens, swell'd the groaning winds With wild surmises, battlings , sounds of war." Thomson: Liberty , pt. 4