[f. prec. + -ER1.]
1. One who practises bat-fowling.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 26. Battfowlere, aucubaculator.
1530. Palsgr., 197/1. Batfouler, a taker of byrdes, pipevr.
1770. G. White, Hist. Selborne, xxvii. 78. The bat-fowlers … take many red wings in the hedges.
† 2. slang. A swindler, a sharper who makes victims of the simple or credulous. Obs.
1602. Rowlands, Greene’s Cony-catchers, 16. Gentlemen Batfowlers in comparison of the common rablement of Cutpurses and pickpockets.
