tackler

plural tacklers

1. hobbiesA player who tackles another.

   The ball carrier can be with or without a football. For the “Head-On” tackle have the “Ball Carrier” stand right in front of the pit and face the tackler.

   2007, Bob Swope, Youth Football Drills and Plays Handbook, page 29

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   When frustrated tacklers finally do catch up with him, Arnett knows how to take his lumps. "If I hit the ground tensely, rigidly, and two tons of angry linemen landed on top of me, they'd break every bone in my body."

   1960 May 12, “Artful Dodgers”, in Time

2. UKdatedbusinessA person who repairs weaving looms.