striker

Meanings

1. A person who is on strike, someone who has stopped working as a protest.
2. Someone or something that hits someone or something else.
3. A blacksmith's assistant who wields the sledgehammer.
4. A piece used to push other pieces toward the pockets in the Asian game of carom.
5. A piece of metal struck against a flint or ferrocerium to produce sparks.
6. A piece of rough material on which matches are struck (that is, against which the matchhead is rubbed).
7. A piece of metal used to attract a magnet, or as a keeper for a magnet.
8. A mechanism of a firearm acting upon the firing pin.
9. One of the players on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.
10. An officer's servant or orderly.
11. The batter.
12. The batsman who is currently facing the bowler and defending his wicket.

1. A surname.

Etymology

From strike + -er.

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