wrangler

wrangler
/rang"gleuhr/, n.
1. a cowboy, esp. one in charge of saddle horses.
2. a person who wrangles or disputes.
3. (at Cambridge University, England) a person placed in the first class in the mathematics tripos.
[1505-15; WRANGLE + -ER1; (def. 1) orig. horse-wrangler, prob. partial trans. of MexSp caballerango groom, stable boy, with -erango suggesting wrangler]

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