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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XII).
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Wrangler, Wronglare, n. [e.m.E. wrangler (c1515).] a. One who disputes or twists (the meaning of something). b. One who argues (powerfully). —a. 1563 G. Hay Confutation Abbot Crosraguel 51.
The wordes of the text were wreisted by this wronglare of scriptures —b. 1644 Petrie Chiliasto-Mastix 56.
This forme of discoursing shewes manifestly that the authour is a strange wrangler

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