[f. STRUGGLE v. + -ER1.] One who struggles.
1554. T. Martin, Marr. Priests, B b j. The Iewes were so hard hearted and malicious struglers against the Trueth, that [etc.].
1598. Bastard, Chrestol., VI. xxix. 148. And was not death a sturdie strugler, In ouerthrowing Iames the iugler?
1677. Miége, Dict. Eng.-Fr., A Struggler, qui se debat ou qui se demene.
a. 1721. Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm.), Wks., 1753, I. 107. Often she cast a kind admiring glance On the bold struggler for delight.
1825. Scott, Fam. Lett. (1894), II. 298. An older woman … added, that we might give her an alms too, for she was an old struggler.
1871. Miss Yonge, Cameos, II. 295. Huss and many another struggler for truth, perished in the flames.
1884. Yates, Recoll., I. 278. The unswerving kindness with which he supported me, an unknown struggler,… against a powerful clique.
1900. J. L. Allen, Increasing Purpose, xv. 211. Here is the hero in life! Among these easy-going people this solitary struggler.
