Timeline for 'wrangle' mean in this sentence
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| May 3, 2018 at 15:15 | comment | added | user151841 | Let us continue this discussion in chat. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 22:29 | vote | accept | dan | ||
| May 2, 2018 at 15:51 | comment | added | user151841 | In terms of animals, "wrangling" basically means "handling" for any purpose. Interestingly, in movie credits, the person who handles the puppets for the puppeteers is credited as a "puppet wrangler" | |
| May 2, 2018 at 15:45 | comment | added | Andrew | @dan if you think wrangling snakes is funny, you'll like this 10+-year old commercial: Cat Herders. Note there is a subtle difference between herding animals and wrangling them, specifically the third definition in the above answer "to take charge of", or, in the case of the snakes, "capture alive". | |
| May 2, 2018 at 15:36 | comment | added | Andrew | Note also that wrangling is a romantic term that evokes iconic images of American cowboys with big hats and mustangs and lariats, leading hundreds of head of cattle across miles of empty plains, while herding is more mundane. In other words, wrangling snakes sounds exciting, while herding snakes sounds tedious, and probably futile. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 14:51 | comment | added | stangdon | @dan You can't imagine rounding up or taking charge of snakes? It's pretty common in parts of the US. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 14:24 | comment | added | Lambie | AmE writers often do this. Take a word usually used in another context and use it in a different one. As wrangle means to take charge of, it works great here. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 14:04 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Here's someone confidently and naturally asserting that director David Lynch is an ant wrangler. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 13:59 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Check out some movie credits. It wouldn't surprise me to see a [weevil] wrangler in the credits for Master and Commander, for example. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 13:43 | comment | added | dan | I can imagine herd horses, but I can't think of herd/wrangle snakes. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 13:25 | history | answered | WendyG | CC BY-SA 4.0 |