Definition of "brangle"

"I was a fool, it's a fact, to let any such brangle come up," said Legree; "but, when the boy set up his will, he had to be broke in."

1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

"As if he'd let a cow-handed bantling like you handle them," Cecily muttered."Children!" Meredyth protested, her face flushing. "What must Lord Englemere think, to hear you brangle so?"

1999, Julia Justiss, The Wedding Gamble‎, page 104