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Wrangler definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WRANGLER, n. An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or peevishness; as a noisy contentious wrangler. Senior wrangler, in the university of Cambridge, the student who passes the best examination in the senate house. Then follow the second, third, etc. Wranglers.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who argues noisily or angrily
2: a cowboy who takes care of the saddle horses [syn: horse wrangler, wrangler]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: circa 1510 1. a bickering disputant 2. [short for horse-wrangler, probably part translation of Mexican Spanish caballerango groom] a ranch hand who takes care of the saddle horses; broadly cowboy

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a person who wrangles. 2 US a cowboy. 3 (at Cambridge University) a person placed in the first class of the mathematical tripos.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Wrangler Wran"gler, n. 1. An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or peevishness. ``Noisy and contentious wranglers.'' --I. Watts. 2. One of those who stand in the first rank of honors in the University of Cambridge, England. They are called, according to their rank, senior wrangler, second wrangler, third wrangler, etc. Cf. Optime.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(wranglers) A wrangler is a cowboy who works with cattle and horses. (AM) N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Disputant, controversialist, jangler, quarrelsome fellow. 2. [Cambridge University, Eng.] Honor man, superior scholar (especially in mathematics).

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