wrangle †

see wrangler

West

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1v.

take care of or be in charge of saddle or pack horses.

See: wrangler(def. 1)

Quotations

1939

After a while he got a job wrangling horses on a party sent out to the mountains to line the rivers into the contours of the land.

1952

He wrangles a bunch of horses and acts as packer for the visitors in the summer.

2v. — Figurative use

See quote.

See: dude(def. 1)

1966

I guess Skie's whole grown up life had been spent around horses, and most of it wrangling dudes in the foothills of Alta.