to wrangle
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7.2
- verb
- /ˈræŋɡəl/
- US
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- On the ranch, the workers wrangle the cattle every morning to prepare them for the market.
- wrangle horses
- wrangle cattle
- wrangle sheep
So there's a lot of insurance in the in the animal wrangling world.
- So there's a lot of insurance in the in the animal wrangling world.
- But she sounds like a sweet young lady and oh, Iowa and pigtails and hog wrangling and all that jazz.
- I I would do that before going snake wrangling hunting.
Examples
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Ivan goes wrangling sheep with Charlie after supper.
Fiction book (1993) -
Right here in this exact spot, I'd come over to wrangle a chestnut horse named Trigger.
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Hutch left at five-thirty each morning to wrangle them in before breakfast.
Fiction book (1991) -
That night I asked Hutch if I could go wrangling with him the next morning.
Fiction book (1991) -
Come summer, she is wrangling at a dude ranch in Central Oregon, where she rescues a horse near death and sneaks into off-limits buildings.
Blog text (9) -
In the early morning light, he would wrangle the horses into the corral for feeding.
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Every summer, the ranchers gather to wrangle the wild horses that roam the pastures.
Synonyms
3
4.2
To manage a large farm that raises cattle or horses
To gather cattle or other farm animals into one place
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Etymology
Wrangle comes from an old word meaning 'to twist' or 'struggle', and it grew to mean handling strong animals. Think of a cattle wrangler who rounds up and cares for horses or cows, using skill to keep them together.