Meanings of ruffler in English

Think you it is only a war-worn, hard-drinking, swashbuckling ruffler that can sin?

At sight of the red liquor the fury died out of the ruffler's face.

The ruffler paused a moment, as if awaiting a reply or a word of encouragement.

He was as bold and venturesome as the bravest ruffler that ever backed a dog at a baiting.

The boy shrank visibly beneath the touch, and again an expression of pain crossed the poor ruffler's face.

The poor ruffler was fallen into meditation, and noted not that his nag did no more than amble.

Why, may I perish if it is not the same swashbuckling ruffler I once knew in London town!

No doubt since the accomplishment was mine it became in her eyes characteristic of a bully and a ruffler.

But whose son he is I may not say, for Heaven denies having borne this ruffler, and so Earth and so Sea.

The ruffling is sometimes very nice and interesting and often gives the ruffler a good position in the glorious company of earlier rufflers--

The meanest ruffler who, with broken feather and tarnished lace, swaggered at the heels of Turenne, was scarcely to be distinguished from me.

He regarded them all not at all, showing no feeling of disgrace at his position, and no desire to carry himself as a ruffler.

What had this well-poised, coldly observant spinster to do with that quaintly ironic ruffler, that romantic cynic, that rowdy Don Quixote, that impossible Enriquez?

The others died with their tails betwixt their legs, I tell you; but this notable ruffler, from the moment he swung aloft to the moment-

The business was by no means too strong for the ruffler's stomach, but the words in which it was conveyed to him most emphatically were.

There was a truculent, Southern pride in the ruffler which sprang immediately into life and which naught that they could say thereafter would stamp out.