noun

• An individual who is on strike.
• 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 quartz-rock to produce sparks; a steel.
• A piece of metal used to attract a magnet, or as a keeper for a magnet.
• (firearms, military) A mechanism of a firearm acting upon the firing pin.
• (soccer) 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.
• (military, slang) An officer's servant or orderly.
• (baseball, slang, 1800s) The batter.
• (cricket) The batsman who is currently facing the bowler and defending his wicket.
• (obsolete) A harpoon.
• (obsolete) A harpooner.
• (obsolete) An inexperienced member of a ship's crew.
• (obsolete) A wencher; a lewd man.
• (obsolete, politics) A blackmailer in politics.
• (obsolete, politics) One whose political influence can be bought.
• A surname.