In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
MISSTEER
Etymology
Verb
missteer (third-person singular simple present missteers, present participle missteering, simple past and past participle missteered)
To steer badly or wrongly.
Anagrams
• meisters, trisemes
Source: Wiktionary
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