misdeal

American  

[mis-deel] / mɪsˈdil /

verb (used with or without object)

misdealt, misdealing

1. to deal wrongly or incorrectly, especially to deal the wrong number at cards.

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noun

1. Cards. a deal in which the wrong number of cards have been distributed or in which the cards were dealt in the wrong order or manner, necessitating a new deal and the cancellation of any points made on the hand, sometimes with a penalty to the dealer.

misdeal British  

/ ˌmɪsˈdiːl /

verb

1. (intr) to deal out cards incorrectly

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noun

1. a faulty deal

Other Word Forms

• misdealer
  noun

Etymology

Origin of misdeal

First recorded in 1475–85; mis- ¹ + deal ¹

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

misdeal misdealing misdealt

If a card be found face upwards in the pack before the deal is finished, it is a misdeal, and there shall be a new deal by the same dealer.

From Round Games with Cards A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice by Peel, W. H.

Should a player take his partner's deal and misdeal, the latter is liable to the usual penalties, and the adversary next in rotation to the player who ought to have dealt, then deals.

From The Laws of Euchre As adopted by the Somerset Club of Boston, March 1, 1888 by Leeds, Herbert Corey

I think," declared Peter with decision, "that we had better call this a misdeal, and play another game for a while.

From Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China by Hoskins, Gayle Porter

"It looks to me like a misdeal," she gaily replied, and was moving away when he called her back.

From The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Poe, Edgar Allan

Nothing of interest occurred until, in the course of the second rubber, Gwen made a misdeal.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend

In recent months, Spears has used her Instagram platform to speak openly about her conservatorship and to air her family’s dirty laundry, alleging a slew of supposed misdealing and ill behavior against her.

From Fox News ● Mar. 16, 2022

Curran's words came as good news for Jimmy Carter, long bedeviled by unproven accusations of financial misdealing and even coverup.

From Time Magazine Archive

But human nature, distorted, defiled, degraded by centuries of misdealing, is scarcely human nature.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various

I misdealt, as was only natural, when I knew she was lying in wait for me to do wrong; and she denounced me for a stupid, clumsy labouring-boy.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

I have revoked twice, and misdealt four times since she has been here.

From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Lever, Charles James

I misdealt, as was only natural, when I knew she was lying in wait for me to do wrong; and she denounced me for a stupid, clumsy laboring-boy.

From Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles

They chatted, they misdealt, they even revoked sometimes; and they overlooked each other's misdemeanours with unscrupulous laxity.

From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 by Trollope, Frances Eleanor

I misdealt, as was only natural, when I knew she was lying in wait for me to do wrong, and she denounced me for a clumsy, stupid, labouring boy.

From Ten Boys from Dickens by Williams, George Alfred