[f. prec. 1 c + -SHIP.] The position or rank of a wrangler of Cambridge University.
1791. in Wordsworth, Schol. Acad. (1877), 323. I’m perfectly satisfied that the Senior Wranglership is Peacock’s due.
1843. R. J. Graves, Syst. Clin. Med., xxx. 397. Obtaining the senior moderatorship [in Dublin university] (analogous to the wranglership of the English universities).
1882. Standard, 30 Jan., 3. To witness the last conferment of degrees under the old system of Wranglership.
1883. Miss M. Betham-Edwards, Disarmed, xxx. Those young ladies as yet outside the intellectual region of Wranglerships and the Classical Tripos.
attrib. 1872. Daily News, 25 March. Men break down under a wranglership competition.
