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Brawler definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BRAWL'ER, n. A noisy fellow; a wrangler.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a fighter (especially one who participates in brawls)

Merriam Webster's

noun see brawl I

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Brawler Brawl"er, n. One that brawls; wrangler. Common brawler (Law), one who disturbs a neighborhood by brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a nuisance). --Wharton.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

brol'-er (Qere midhyanim; Kethibh midhwanim, "quarrelsomeness"; amachos, "not fighting"): Spoken of the quarrelsome woman; "a contentious (the King James Version "brawling") woman" (Pr 21:9). He who seeks the office of a bishop should be "no brawler" (paroinos the King James Version "given to wine," Tit 1:7); "not contentious" (the King James Version "not a brawler," 1Ti 3:3; Tit 3:2).

Moby Thesaurus

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