misride

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ ride

Verb

misride (third-person singular simple present misrides, present participle misriding, simple past misrode, past participle misridden)

1. To ride badly or wrongly.
   • 1893, Melville Philips, The Making of a Newspaper, page 212:

     A glance suffices to tell him if a horse has been "stiffened," and clever indeed must that jockey be who can pull or misride a horse without his eager eye detecting him.

   • 1937, John Frederick Charles Fuller, Towards Armageddon: The Defence Problem and Its Solution, page 218:

     It is as if a man came to me and said: "I present you with this horse, which is likely a Derby winner", and I, in possession of a racing stable, were to turn to my grooms and jockeys and say: “How can we lame it, break its wind or misride it so that one of my worn-out old cab horses will not be out-classed?"

   • 2005, Donald Pharr, Santi V. Buscemi, Writing Today: Contexts and Options for the Real World, page 140:

     At such a time, you couldn't spur him or misride him to the wrong spot with the strength of Superman.