mistrail
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of mistral (“type of wind”).
Example Sentences
- "Heat, dust, bustle, and confusion, not unattended with great excitement, prevail during the long summer's day. Equal bustle and confusion, with mud, and the "mistrail," or north-west wind, that of winter."
- "Hyères (Var), a small town well sheltered from the north wind, exposed to the full south, four kilometers from the sea, but insufficiently protected against the mistrail; the thermometer rarely sinks below zero."
- "Impressing them as pattering rain upon a Rhino's hide, Or like the Mistrail's hail affects the rocky mountain side."
- "The mistrail is charged with positive ions."
- "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) ."
- "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)."