LekhoriLekhoriTo convince or influence (someone) by arguing or contending.
Followed by out of: to elicit (something) from a person by arguing or bargaining.
[W]e vvrangled out of the King ten quarters of Corne for a copper Kettel, the vvhich the Preſident preceiving him much to affect, valued it at a much greater rate; […]
To speak or write (something) in an argumentative or contentious manner.
[H]e has taken in, Sir, the vvhole ſubject,— […] begging, borrovving, and ſtealing, as he vvent along, all that had been vvrote or vvrangled thereupon in the ſchools and porticos of the learned; […]
An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; an altercation.
For in that you would your awardship shuld take none effect, you shew your selfe nothing inclinable to the redresse of your brothers vnright dealinge wyth an honeste poore man, which hath bene redye at your request to doo you pleasure with his things, or els he had neuer come into this wrāgle for his own goods with your brother.
Angry disputation; noisy quarrelling.
The verb is derived from Middle English wranglen, wrangle (“to contend with (someone) in a test of strength; (figuratively) to make misleading arguments to entrap”); from a Middle Dutch or Middle Low ...
Select a language to see translations
Wrangle and bloodshed followed thence.
A contentious argument or response.