One who bets; a better. Addison.
Ripe for weeping; ready to weep.
1. An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock. 2. Etym: [OE. battleder.] A child's hornbook. [Obs.] Halliwell.