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mistrail

mistrail is the alternative form of mistral.

Meaning of mistral

Noun

mistral (plural mistrals)

  1. A strong cold north-west wind in southern France and the Mediterranean.
    • I saw him, the sea gray under the mistral and foam-flecked, watching the vanishing coast of France, which he was destined never to see again; and I thought there was something gallant in his bearing and dauntless in his soul.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 48”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC

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Verb

mistrail (third-person singular simple present mistrails, present participle mistrailing, simple past and past participle mistrailed)

  1. (ambitransitive) To gallop in such a way that the rear hoof lands in line with the place where the front hoof on the opposite side landed.
    • again, the imprint of the posterior foot in question may be made in front or behind that the diagonal anterior foot, and then the horse mistrails himself (se dépiste) .1892, Armand Goubaux, Gustave Barrier, Simon J. J. Harger, The Exterior of the Horse, page 475
    • dépister, v.r., (man.) to mistrail (said of the gallop when the imprint of the rear foot is in front of or behind that of the diagonal anterior).1899, Cornélis De Witt Willcox, A French-English Military Technical Dictionary, page 127

Forms of mistrail

Noun
pluralmistrails
Verb
third-person singular presentmistrails
present participlemistrailing
past participlemistrailed
pastmistrailed

Origin of mistrail

From mis- + trail.

Questions about mistrail

What does mistrail mean?
Mistrail means to gallop in such a way that the rear hoof lands in line with the place where the front hoof on the opposite side landed.
What is mistrail the alternative form of?
Mistrail is the alternative form of mistral.
What part of speech is mistrail?
Mistrail is a verb.
What is the past tense of mistrail?
The past tense of mistrail is mistrailed.

Words near mistrail in the dictionary

  1. mistrading
  2. mistradition
  3. mistraditions
  4. mistrafficked
  5. mistrafficking
  6. mistrail
  7. mistrailed
  8. mistrailing
  9. mistrails
  10. mistrain
  11. mistrained

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