WRANGLER


Meaning of WRANGLER in English

/rang"gleuhr/ , n.

1. a cowboy, esp. one in charge of saddle horses.

2. a person who wrangles or disputes.

3. (at Cambridge University, England) a person placed in the first class in the mathematics tripos.

[ 1505-15; WRANGLE + -ER 1 ; (def. 1) orig. horse-wrangler, prob. partial trans. of MexSp caballerango groom, stable boy, with -erango suggesting wrangler ]

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