[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

wrangle \wran"gle\, v. i. imp.  p. p. wrangled; p. pr.  vb.
   n. wrangling. oe. wranglen to wrestle. see wrong,
   wring.
   1913 webster
   1. to argue; to debate; to dispute. obs.
      1913 webster

   2. to dispute angrily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily; to
      brawl; to altercate. "in spite of occasional wranglings."
      --macaulay.
      1913 webster

            for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle. --shak.
      1913 webster

            he did not know what it was to wrangle on
            indifferent points.                   --addison.
      1913 webster
see also:
wrangled wrangling wrong wring 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

wrangle \wran"gle\, v. t.
   to involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil. r. --bp.
   sanderson.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

wrangle \wran"gle\, n.
   an angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an
   altercation.
   1913 webster

   syn: altercation; bickering; brawl; jar; jangle; contest;
        controversy. see altercation.
        1913 webster
see also:
altercation 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

wrangle
     n 1: an angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words"
          syn: quarrel, row, words, run-in, dustup
     2: an instance of intense argument as in bargaining syn: haggle,
         haggling, wrangling
     v 1: to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively; "the bar keeper
          threw them out, but they continued to wrangle on down
          the street" syn: brawl
     2: herd and care for; "wrangle horses"
see also:
quarrel row words run-in dustup haggle 
haggling wrangling brawl 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

87 moby thesaurus words for "wrangle":
   altercate, altercation, argue, argufy, argument, bandy words,
   bicker, bicker over, bickering, blood feud, brawl, broil, cage,
   caterwaul, cavil, choplogic, contend, contend about, contention,
   contest, controversy, corral, cross swords, cut and thrust, differ,
   discept, dispute, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, drive, drove,
   embroilment, fall out, feud, fight, fight over, flite, fliting,
   fracas, fuss, give and take, goad, hassle, have it out, have words,
   herd, imbroglio, join issue, lash, lock horns, logomachize,
   logomachy, moot, open quarrel, pettifog, plead, polemic,
   polemicize, polemize, prick, punch cattle, quarrel, quarrel over,
   quibble, ride herd on, round up, row, sharp words, shepherd,
   slanging match, snarl, spar, spat, spur, squabble, squabble over,
   strife, take issue with, take sides, thrash out, tiff,
   try conclusions, tussle, vendetta, whip, words, wrangle over

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