jangle

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

JAN'GLE, verb intransitive To quarrel in words; to altercate; to bicker; to wrangle. JAN'GLE, verb transitive To cause to sound untunably or discordantly. --E'er monkish rhymes Had jangl'd their fantastic chimes.
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