Obs. slang. Also 8 stoater, stouter. [a. Du. stooter, f. stooten to knock, push.] A violent blow.
1694. Motteux, Rabelais, IV. lxvii. Vinet lent him such a swinging stoater with the Pitch-fork…, that down fell Signore on the ground.
a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Stoter, a great Blow. Stoter him, or tip him a Stoter, settle him, give him a swinging Blow.
1769. Stratford Jubilee, II. i. 28. Giving him a stouter on the noggin, I laid him as flat as a flaunder.
1785. Grose, Dict. Vulgar T.
