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One engaged in dispute — cowboy — Cambridge mathematician with a first-class degree
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wrangler
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1510s, "one who takes part in quarrels," agent noun from wrangle (v.). Meaning "person in charge of horses or cattle, herder" is from 1888; as a proprietary name for a brand of jeans, copyrighted 1947, claiming use from 1929.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wrangler \Wran"gler\, n. An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or peevishness. ``Noisy and contentious wranglers.'' --I. Watts. One of those who stand in the first rank of honors in the University of Cambridge, England. They are called, ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Wrangler is an American manufacturer of jeans and other clothing items, particularly workwear . The brand is owned by the VF Corporation , who also own Lee , JanSport , and The North Face , among others. Its headquarters is in downtown Greensboro, North ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Someone who wrangles or quarrels. 2 A cowboy who takes care of saddle horses. 3 A cowboy who takes care of tourists. 4 An animal handler or trainer. 5 (context UK education University of Cambridge English) a student who has completed the third year ...
Usage examples of wrangler.
Cal, Dilmond and Adam dismounted and went inside, trailed by the wranglers.
Okoye chided Evermore when the four wranglers retired to their common room.
Gorgas was too pompous, Grubb too virginal, Ratline too old, the wranglers too young, and Bhatterji too whatever Bhatterji was, so The Lotus Jewel had few options.
Some of the more routine work could even be farmed out to Ratline and his wranglers.
Rosalinda rummaged amid the spilled trade goods for something to eat as she told him how she and her two sisters, the daughters of a Butterfield wrangler and his Indian mujer, had all three married up with the Anglo trader here at Growler Wash, a nice old Mormon gent called Pop Wolfram.
Since Bedaux was spending a quarter of a million on the expedition, this was hardly enough to pay for the chewing gum and cigarettes which Madame Bedaux handed out daily to the wranglers.
When one of his wranglers, Jim Blackman, took a rest at a nearby ranch, Bedaux, through his New York publicity agent, blew it up into a tale of a cowboy gone missing in the wilderness.
Crown Vee animals were branded, eighteen hundred and ten cows and heifers ready to breed, one hundred and forty-two good bulls eager to breed them, and eight hundred and twenty-six steers, a herd of twenty-seven hundred and seventy-eight, all marked on the left hip, plus one hundred and thirty-two remuda horses and six mules branded lightly on the left shoulder by Nacho and the wrangler.
What menders could not do with all their draughts and poultices, farmers and farriers, sailors and wranglers, sheepherds and cowherds and goatherds now did with a laying on of hands.
The girl led the way into the stable, and Heine Schultz, temporary wrangler, showed Hiram ten immense black horses, not one of them under sixteen hundred pounds.
It will be nothing to finish the tally and prepare the wranglers pay vouchers.
Yet Adam looked beyond the glittering hardness that she showed her wranglers, and saw a woman as soft and free as a Texas breeze.
A one figure, dressed like the other wranglers in boots and leather chaps, trailed slowly behind.
She turned and made her way through the tangle of curious townspeople, with the wranglers following.
With the townspeople looking on, whispering at this strange turn of events, the wranglers followed, setting off at a thunderous pace.