arch. [f. as prec. + -ING2.]
† a. Disposed to cavil or quibble, (obs.); b. litigious, quarrelsome; c. tumultuous, riotous.
1549. Coverdale, Par. Erasm. Gal. v. 14. The brablyng law with so many rules.
1577. Harrison, England, II. ii. (1877), 53. In a brabling fraie, one of hir men was slaine.
1603. H. Crosse, Vertues Commw. (1878), 63. Violent extortion, brabling suites, and vniust vexations.
1633. P. Fletcher, Elisa, xxii. Brabbling lawyers’ brawls.
[1855. Motley, Dutch Rep., II. viii. (1866), 294. Commerce would have no security at Antwerp ‘in those brabbling times.’]
