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assaulter|əˈsɔːltə(r)|
Also assaultair, -tour.
[f. assault v. + -er1. Cf. OF. assauteur, AF. assaultour, also occas. followed in Eng. spelling.]
One who assaults, an attacker or assailant.
1548Hall Chron. Hen. VIII an. 16 (R.) The assaulters to deuise all maner of engynes for the assaulting. 1566Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 212 And receaved the first assaultairis upon the pointis of thare spearis. 1583Stanyhurst Aeneis ii. (Arb.) 58 The Troians..the assaultours with weak force vaynely repulsed. 1796F. Burney Camilla viii. ix. Admiration is a dangerous assaulter of diffidence. 1837Campbell Song of Greeks ii. 154 For we've sworn by our Country's assaulters, By the virgins they've dragged from our altars. |