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noun

Striker n.

One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wields the sledge.

A harpoon; also, a harpooner. "Wherever we come to an anchor, we always send out our strikers, and put out hooks and lines overboard, to try fish."

A wencher; a lewd man. (Obs.)

A workman who is on a strike.

A blackmailer in politics; also, one whose political influence can be bought. (Political Cant)

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"Striker" Quotes from Famous Books

... had taken Geoffrey's advice, and had never laid aside the shirt of mail, night or day. Fine as was its temper, two or three links of the outer fold were broken, but the point did not penetrate the second fold, and the dagger snapped in the hand of the striker. The force of the sudden blow, however, hurled Walter to the ground. With a loud cry Ralph rushed forward. The man instantly fled. Ralph pursued him but a short distance and then hastened ...

— Saint George for England • G. A. Henty

... he would play water polo over at the navy aviation camp, and always at a certain time of the day his "striker" would bring him his horse and for an hour or more he would ride out along the beach roads within the American lines. After the first few days it was difficult to extract real thrills from the Vera Cruz situation, but we used ...

— The Lost Road • Richard Harding Davis

... message to you," said Ted quietly. "I didn't even know your name until your striker mentioned it to me ...

— Ted Strong in Montana - With Lariat and Spur • Edward C. Taylor

... striking the great fish just as it was slowly rising toward the surface, close to the boat; and so well aimed was the stroke, that there was a tremendous swirl in the water, the side near Jem resounded with a heavy blow from the fish's tail, and the boathook seemed to be snatched out of the striker's hand to ...

— The Adventures of Don Lavington - Nolens Volens • George Manville Fenn

... is a man of rather higher intelligence, but he also has a singular capacity for perpetrating dreadful blunders. Over in the town of Nockamixon one of the churches last year called a clergyman named Rev. Joseph Striker. In the same place, by a most unfortunate coincidence, resides also a prize-fighter named Joseph Striker, and rumors were afloat a few weeks ago that the latter Joseph was about to engage in a contest with a Jersey pugilist for the championship. ...

— Elbow-Room - A Novel Without a Plot • Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)

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