wrangle

To convince or influence (someone) by arguing or contending.

Followed by out of: to elicit (something) from a person by arguing or bargaining.

[W]e vvrangled out of the King ten quarters of Corne for a copper Kettel, the vvhich the Preſident preceiving him much to affect, valued it at a much greater rate; […]

To speak or write (something) in an argumentative or contentious manner.

[H]e has taken in, Sir, the vvhole ſubject,— […] begging, borrovving, and ſtealing, as he vvent along, all that had been vvrote or vvrangled thereupon in the ſchools and porticos of the learned; […]

To spend (time) arguing or quarrelling.

To herd (horses or other livestock).

When she [Debbie Reynolds as Lucretia Rogers] tries to wrangle a calf, she ends up flat on her face in the barnyard muck.

An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; an altercation.

For in that you would your awardship shuld take none effect, you shew your selfe nothing inclinable to the redresse of your brothers vnright dealinge wyth an honeste poore man, which hath bene redye at your request to doo you pleasure with his things, or els he had neuer come into this wrāgle for his own goods with your brother.

This vvould of Neceſſity, breed an infinite Number of Brangles and litigious Suits in the Spiritual Courts, and put the vvretched Paſtor at perpetual Variance vvith his vvhole Pariſh.

Angry disputation; noisy quarrelling.

Wrangle and bloodshed followed thence.

From this dialogue the assembly fell to wrangle, and broke up quarrelling.

A contentious argument or response.

A controversy.