Obs. exc. dial. [f. BRANGLE v.2: cf. F. branle.]

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  1.  A brawl, wrangle, squabble.

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1600.  Holland, Livy, IV. xxxv. 162 i. Run desperatly and blindly into a world of brangles and troubles.

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1686.  Goad, Celest. Bodies, I. xvi. 105. I will not press this too much, because it may occasion a Brangle.

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1722.  De Foe, Mem. Cavaliers (1840), 154. The feuds and brangles of this parliament.

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1875.  Lanc. Gloss., Brangle, a quarrel or squabble.

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  2.  ? A state of confusion, a muddle.

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1865.  Morning Star, 26 May. The bill had got into that unfortunate state which the right hon. gentleman … was in the habit of calling a ‘brangle.’

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