[f. STORM v. + -ER1.]
1. One who storms or rages; one who makes a wild agitation.
1617. Collins, Def. Bp. Ely, II. ix. 358. The Iesuites, those stormers against the authoritie of heathen Magistrates ouer beleeuers.
1886. Pall Mall Gaz., 10 Feb., 8/1. I wish we could make people see that we are not merely wild stormers, but that we have definite, sober economic theories.
2. One who takes by storm; a member of a storming party.
1655. Earl Orrery, Parthen., II. II. III. 148. The Assaliants admir’d to finde the Breach so well defended,… but the Day no sooner appear’d than the Stormers wonder ceas’d by another.
1828–40. Sir W. Napier, Penins. War, XVI. v. (Rtldg.), II. 362. On the breach, at the head of the stormers.
1889. J. G. Alger, Englishmen in Fr. Rev., 52. The widows and orphans of the stormers of the Tuileries.
