[f. BRANGLE v.2 + -MENT; but cf. F. branlement.] A wrangle, a disorderly dispute.

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1617.  Collins, Def. Bp. Ely, II. x. 446. The Bishop would not rush into this new branglement.

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1830.  Blackw. Mag., XXVIII. 179. A specimen of conjugal branglement.

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a. 1848.  D’Israeli, in Cornh. Mag. (1879), Dec., 688. ‘It is a long time since he declined to hold a branglement (sic) with a blockhead.’

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