Obs. rare–1. [Of obscure origin. Cf. WRAGLAND 1.] pl. Unthriving trees that will never become timber.
1432–3. Martin, in Year-Book 11 Hen. VI. (1567), 1 b. Querkes qe sont appelles wranlons quel ne voet estre meresme, mes est suable bois, il nest aiuge wast. [Hence in Kitchin, Crt. Leet (1580), wranglans, in translation (1651), wrang-lands, whence in Blount (1656), Skinner (1671), Coles (1677), etc.; also Bailey (1721), wranglings.]
