*angler*

n. A quarrelsome person. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who dangles about or after others, especially after women; a trifler. “ Danglers at toilets.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One that entangles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. jangleor. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. An idle talker; a babbler; a prater. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A wrangling, noisy fellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female prater or babbler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. janglerie chattering, talk. ] Jangling. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 1st Mangle. ] One who mangles or tears in cutting; one who mutilates any work in doing it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 3d Mangle. ] One who smooths with a mangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, spangles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, strangles. “The very strangler of their amity.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or peevishness. “Noisy and contentious wranglers.” I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of those who stand in the first rank of honors in the University of Cambridge, England. They are called, according to their rank, senior wrangler, second wrangler, third wrangler, etc. Cf. Optime. [ 1913 Webster ]