Meaning

• An individual who is on strike.

• Someone or something that hits someone or something else.

• 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.

• An officer's servant or orderly.

• (1800s) The batter.

• The batsman who is currently facing the bowler and defending his wicket.

• A harpoon.

• A harpooner.

• An inexperienced member of a ship's crew.

• A wencher; a lewd man.

• A blackmailer in politics.

• One whose political influence can be bought.