Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Batteler \Bat"tel*er\, Battler \Bat"tler\, n. [See 2d {Battel},
   n.]
   A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the
   buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he
   called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge.
   --Wright.

Source : WordNet®

battler
     n : someone who fights (or is fighting) [syn: {combatant}, {belligerent},
          {fighter}, {scrapper}]