brangle

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

BRAN'GLE, noun [Latin frendeo.] A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute. BRAN'GLE, verb intransitive To wrangle; to dispute contentiously; to squabble.
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