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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Brangle

Brăng'gle, n.

noun

(brăng'gl), n. [Prov. Eng. brangled, confused, entangled, Scot. brangle, to shake, menace; probably a modification of wrangle, q. v. Cf. Icel. brang, crowd, tumult, and Fr. brander, to swing, shake.] A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute. [Rare.] “A brangle between him and his neighbor.” Swift.

Brăng'gle, v. i.

verbintransitive

To wrangle; to dispute contentiously; to squabble. [Rare.] Here I conceive that flesh and blood will brangle. And murmuring Reason with the Almighty wrangle.