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wrangler
[ rang-gler ]
noun
- a cowboy, especially one in charge of saddle horses.
- a person who wrangles or disputes.
- (at Cambridge University, England) a person placed in the first class in the mathematics tripos.
wrangler
/ ˈræŋɡlə /
noun
- one who wrangles
- a herder; cowboy
- a person who handles or controls animals involved in the making of a film or television programme
a snake wrangler
- (at Cambridge University) a candidate who has obtained first-class honours in Part II of the mathematics tripos. The wrangler with the highest marks is called the senior wrangler
Word History and Origins
Origin of wrangler1
Example Sentences
From Romantic squish to scabrous satirist to rebel wrangler to, finally, Ambassador of Goodwill.
Johnny worked as a wrangler at the Elkhorn dude ranch, but he lived only for the rodeo—until he met Sue.
She served as a gatekeeper and adviser, friend and designer wrangler.
By Tuesday morning it will be interesting to see whether Wrangler is still running their Brett Favre commercials.
On the rise, sharply silhouetted against the west, Alfred rode wrangler to the little herd of ponies.
"Oh, no, this kind of a wrangler isn't," laughed the foreman.
The first, or senior, wrangler probably beat him by a facility in applying well-known rules, and a readiness in writing.
Gilbert Wakefield, second wrangler in 1776, published an edition of Lucretius, and was a man of great ability and energy.
Mathematics came within his department; but, certainly in my time, he never turned out a wrangler.
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