3. To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones.
Where the brook brawls along the painful road.
Wordsworth.
Syn. -- To wrangle; squabble; contend.
Brawl (&?;), n. A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; as, a drunken brawl.
His sports were hindered by the brawls.
Shak.
Syn. -- Noise; quarrel; uproar; row; tumult.
Brawl"er (&?;), n. One that brawls; wrangler.
Common brawler (Law), one who disturbs a neighborhood by brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a nuisance). Wharton.
Brawl"ing, a. 1. Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy.
She is an irksome brawling scold.
Shak.