Skittler vs Skitter - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between skittler and skitter

is that skittler is one who plays the game of skittles while skitter is a skittering movement.

to move hurriedly or as by twitching or bouncing.

(en noun)

One who plays the game of skittles.

* 1865 , The Fortnightly Review (volume 2, page 305)

In the seventeenth century, Lincoln's Inn Fields was the favourite resort of football players, skittlers , and bowlers.

(en verb)

to move hurriedly or as by twitching or bouncing

I opened the cabinet and hundreds of cockroaches went skittering off into the darkness.

to make a skittering noise

In Scotland : Diarrea.

(en noun)

A skittering movement.

A skitter of activity.

A skitter of gooseflesh.