wrangle

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I hope he will do very well out here Now since that letter was written (yesterday) in comes a cable from K. saying Winston can't leave England but that Hankey starts in his place K. says he is sure I will give him every facility A pretty stuffy cable in from the War Office on the Hospital ships and medical personnel and material wrangle which is still going on.

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  1. intransitive verb To quarrel noisily or angrily; bicker. See Synonyms at argue.
  2. transitive verb To win or obtain by argument.
  3. transitive verb To herd (horses or other livestock).
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  • A lot of busy-bodies had by this time been attracted by the wrangle, and these heard the doctor's accusations [Pg 200] in full, but gathered a very imperfect notion of Cardan's reply. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jerome Cardan, by W.G. Waters.
  • He can then "wrangle" the goo-splattered object in much the same way ghosts are wrangled. —  GoNintendo.com Podcast
  • Belfast Education and Library Board has voted to suspend all meetings in the wrangle which centres on a £7. 3m budget shortfall. —  Northern Ireland Local News
  • If all you can wrangle is an Aspergers Disorder diagnosis, not to worry, you can still start your own Autism self advocacy network because you are "on the spectrum". —  Progressive Bloggers
  • Bilfinger Berger said that even if a compromise was reached over the current wrangle, there remained another 99 disputes with the city council and tram firm TIE that would need to be resolved before work could resume.
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English wranglen, of Middle Low German origin; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English wranglen; a freq. form connected with Low German wrangen, wrangle, Danish vringle, twist, entangle, and ult. with wring: see wring.
  2. from wrangle, v.
 

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