striker

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun One who strikes, as an employee on strike against an employer.
• noun One that strikes, as the clapper in a bell or the firing pin in a gun.
• noun A harpoon.
• noun One who uses a harpoon; a harpooner.
• noun An enlisted person in usually intensive training for a naval technical rating.
• noun Sports A forward on a soccer team.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun One who strikes, in any sense of the verb strike.
• noun A workman who with others quits work in order to coerce their employer to accede to their demands.
• noun One who seeks to effect a strike, in sense 13. [Political slang, U. S.]
• noun In the United States army, a soldier detailed to act as an officer's servant. See strike, v. i., 19.
• noun A wencher.
• noun A harpooner.
• noun In the hardware districts of England, a workman who manages the fire, heats the steel, and assists the forger.
• noun An assistant or inferior shipwright.
• noun A man employed to strike off the superfluous quantity of grain, salt, etc., from the top of a measure.
• noun That which strikes.
• noun In ornithology, a tern or sea-swallow.
• noun In the menhaden-fishery: The man who manages the striker-boat.
• noun A green hand who works at low wages while learning the business, but is one of the crew of a vessel.
• noun In billiards, the one whose turn it is to play.
• noun In leather manufacturing, a solution applied after the leather is colored to fix or fasten the shade and give it a more uniform appearance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wields the sledge.
• noun A harpoon; also, a harpooner.
• noun obsolete A wencher; a lewd man.
• noun A workman who is on a strike.
• noun Political Cant A blackmailer in politics; also, one whose political influence can be bought.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun An individual who is on strike
• noun Someone or something that hits someone or something else.
• noun 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.
• noun baseball, slang, 1800s The batter.
• noun cricket The batsman who is currently facing the bowler and defending his wicket
• noun obsolete A harpoon.
• noun obsolete A harpooner.
• noun obsolete A wencher; a lewd man.
• noun obsolete, politics A blackmailer in politics.
• noun obsolete, politics One whose political influence can be bought.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun someone receiving intensive training for a naval technical rating
• noun someone who hits
• noun a forward on a soccer team
• noun an employee on strike against an employer
• noun the part of a mechanical device that strikes something