\Rant"er\, n.
1. A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.
2. (Eccl. Hist.)
   (a) One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; --
       called also {Seekers}. See {Seeker}.
   (b) One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the
       Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency
       in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt.