wrangle

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To quarrel noisily or angrily. synonym: argue.
• intransitive verb To grasp and maneuver something.
• intransitive verb To attempt to deal with or understand something; contend or struggle.
• intransitive verb To win or obtain by argument.
• intransitive verb To manage or herd (horses or cattle).
• intransitive verb To manage or control (something, especially an animal), as on a movie set.
• intransitive verb To grasp and maneuver (something); wrestle.
• noun The act of wrangling.
• noun An angry, noisy argument or dispute.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel.
• noun Synonyms Squabble, Altercation, etc. (see quarrel), controversy.
• To dispute; argue noisily or in a quarrelsome manner; brawl; altercate.
• To engage in discussion and disputation; argue, debate; hence, formerly, in some universities, to dispute publicly; defend or oppose a thesis by argument.
• Synonyms To bicker, spar, jangle. See quarrel, n.
• To contest or dispute, especially in the usually brawling manner of the schools.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb obsolete To argue; to debate; to dispute.
• intransitive verb To dispute angrily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily; to brawl; to altercate.
• transitive verb rare To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil.
• noun An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb intransitive to bicker, or quarrel angrily and noisily
• verb transitive to herd horses or other livestock
• noun An act of wrangling
• noun An angry dispute

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively
• verb herd and care for
• noun an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)
• noun an angry dispute