misherd

present singular third person misherds · participle present misherding · participle past misherded · past misherded

1. To herd into the wrong place.

   Were we innocent as farm animals and in danger of being misherded?

   2013, Hob Broun, Inner Tube: A Novel

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   They beseiged manorial overseers to adjudicate disputes concerning ownership of rustled livestock or damage to crops caused by strayed (or deliberately misherded) animals.

   1988, Dwight B. Heath, Contemporary Cultures and Societies of Latin America, page 204

   Russ wasn't fighting that actual second but you could tell he had been by the way the other customers were stood about the room in ragged bunches like misherded sheep.

   1988 ·, Paul Tully, The Jehovahs' Jailbreak, page 55