misturn
English
Etymology
From Middle English misturnen, mistournen, mistornen, equivalent to mis- + turn.
Verb
misturn (third-person singular simple present misturns, present participle misturning, simple past and past participle misturned)
- (transitive) To turn wrongly or incorrectly; turn aside wrongly; pervert.
- (intransitive) To go wrong; make a wrong turn.
Noun
misturn (plural misturns)
- A wrong turn.
- 1916, Hildegard G. Frey, The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods:
- At one of the dim cross-roads they had made a misturn, and were now wandering around without the slightest notion of where they were going.
- 1919, Hildegard G. Frey, The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit:
- They heroically struggled through the remainder of the figure, but Oh-Pshaw, completely demoralized, made one misturn after the other.
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