[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] : WordNet (r) 2.0

wrangling
     n : an instance of intense argument as in bargaining syn: haggle,
          haggling, wrangle
see also:
haggle haggling wrangle 

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

66 moby thesaurus words for "wrangling":
   kilkenny cats, aggressive, altercation, apologetics, apologia,
   apology, argument, argumentation, bellicose, belligerent, bicker,
   bickering, casuistry, cat-and-dog life, combat, combative,
   conflict, contention, contentiousness, contest, contestation,
   controversy, cut and thrust, debate, defense, disputation,
   disputatious, dispute, divisive, enmity, eristic, factional,
   factious, fighting, flyting, hassle, hostility, hubbub, irascible,
   irritable, litigation, litigious, logomachy, paper war, partisan,
   passage of arms, polarizing, polemic, polemics, pugnacious,
   quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsome, quarrelsomeness, rhubarb,
   scrapping, set-to, shrewish, squabbling, strife, struggle,
   verbal engagement, war, war of words, warfare, words

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