misthrust

present singular third person misthrusts · participle present misthrusting · participle past misthrusted · past misthrusted

1. Irelanddialectalpronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of mistrust.

   Poor Pat don't know as much as strangers do, I misthrust, Misther Scully.

   1866, Nelly Dillon, Anne I. Robertson, The Story of Nelly Dillon, page 227

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   I didn't misthrust him then, miss; but when I heard a while ago that ye were mad intirely wid me for bein' so late, it sthruck me that the old vagabone was playin' some game.

   1885, Margaret Hungerford, A Maiden All Forlorn and Other Stories., page 284

   Mebbe it's the thruth you're afther findin' out; but I misthrust, and it's meself will never fergive her if she breaks the heart of the best by in the counthry.

   1897, Maud Wilder Goodwin, Flint: His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes, page 68

plural misthrusts

1. A thrust that did not go as intended.

   Just as he lunged near the bedstead, he made a misthrust.

   2011, JoAnn Wendt, The Golden Dove

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   The weapon passed between the body and one arm of the victim, and the Indian, losing his balance by the force of his misthrust, measured his length on the sand.

   1900, Gabriel Ferry, An Adventure with the Apaches, page 55

   If anything could occur to bring him to his senses, to impress upon him the necessity of checking the pace of his task, it is this failure, this misthrust, precisely this! Instead of Polonius, had it been the King whom he had stabbed, what would he not have brought upon himself!

   1907, Karl Werder, The Heart of Hamlet's Mystery, page 151

   Bushy Bob: is still the fighter—always will be—and fighting in the Senate is pretty much like fighting in the popular arena, only it is more serious business, for there is always someone ready to pink a weakness in the armor, to take advantage of a misthrust, and they be skilled knights, there.

   1911, William Bayard Hale, “La Follette, Pioneer Progressive”, in The World's Work, volume 22, page 14599

   When a heddle eye is bent by a misthrust, or heddles are otherwise noticed to be damaged, it should be cut out of the set with wire-cutting pliers.

   1947, Rayon Textile Monthly - Volume 28, page 80

comparative more misthrust · superlative most misthrust

1. That has been thrust badly.

   It gouged the iridium armor like a misthrust rapier which tears skin but does not pierce the skull.

   2009, David Drake, The Complete Hammer's Slammers