assaulter

plural assaulters

1. One who commits assault.

   "If you've been assaulted and battered," said the Mayor, "we shall have to arrest the assaulters and batterers, as well."

   1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 138

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   Earnest assaulters of current theories, or earnest apologists for them, should alike have conducted attack or defence, as it seems to us, upon some more concerted plan.

   1861, The Dublin University Magazine, volume 57, page 530

   Synonyms: assailant