Meaning of striker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A person who is on strike, someone who has stopped working as a protest.
3. A person who is on strike, someone who has stopped working as a protest
4. Someone or something that hits someone or something else.
5. A blacksmith's assistant who wields the sledgehammer.
6. Someone or something that hits someone or something else. A blacksmith's assistant who wields the sledgehammer. A piece used to push other pieces toward the pockets in the Asian game of carom. A piece of metal struck against a flint or ferrocerium to produce sparks
7. A piece used to push other pieces toward the pockets in the Asian game of carom.
8. A blacksmith's assistant who wields the sledgehammer
9. A piece of metal struck against a flint or quartz-rock to produce sparks; a steel.
10. A piece used to push other pieces toward the pockets in the Asian game of carom
11. A piece of metal used to attract a magnet, or as a keeper for a magnet.
12. A piece of metal struck against a flint or ferrocerium to produce sparks
13. A mechanism of a firearm acting upon the firing pin.
14. 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.
15. An officer's servant or orderly.
    slang
16. The batter.
    slang
17. The batsman who is currently facing the bowler and defending his wicket.
18. A harpoon.
    obsolete
19. A harpooner.
    obsolete
20. An inexperienced member of a ship's crew.
    obsolete
21. A wencher; a lewd man.
    obsolete
22. A blackmailer in politics.
    obsolete
23. One whose political influence can be bought.
    obsolete

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Examples

“The striker's job was onerous, too, because there was so little "give" in the metal, and the perpetual jarring was indeed trying to the muscles.”

“Olympiakos had barely been in the Arsenal half but should have levelled in the 14th minute. A low corner was not dealt with and the ball fell to the feet of striker Rafik Djebbour, who saw his close-range effort brilliantly cleared from the goalline by Arteta.”

“"Dog-robber" has a definite significance to some army men; but unless one has spent some time in uniform he will probably have to search long for its meaning: an officer's servant or striker.”

“[W]here ever we come to an Anchor, we always ſend out our Strikers, and put out Hooks and Lines overboard, to try for Fiſh.”

“'Twill prove a notable striker, like his father.”

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