noun

• One who rants; a noisy, boisterous speaker or declaimer.
• (obsolete) A jovial fellow.
• (religion, historical) A member of an alleged sect in the time of the English Commonwealth (1649–1660) who were regarded as heretical by the established church.
• (religion, historical, derogatory) One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervour and zeal.