Skittler vs Skittle - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between skittler and skittle

is that skittler is one who plays the game of skittles while skittle is one of the wooden targets used in skittles.

to play skittles.

(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 noun)

one of the wooden targets used in skittles

(skittl)

To play skittles.

To beat comprehensively.

To use as a recreational drug a certain over-the-counter cough medication that is taken orally and whose tablets are said to resemble .