"detortion" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "ref": "1835 January 23 (date written), Frederic James Post, “A Discourse Touching Rides and Riding”, in Extracts from the Diary and Other Manuscripts of the Late Frederic James Post, of Islington. […], London: […] [James Moyes] for private circulation, published 1838, →OCLC, pages 331–332:",
          "text": "But often, when thy face [i.e., that of a horse] is turned from the stable, thou hast an unaccountable desire to place it in the position occupied by thy tail: thou stoppest, coughest, shyest, and erst, with swift detorsion, turnest round, then, with sidelong glance of my magic caduceus, ominously wagging between the horizon and thy ample sides, I incite thee on, but rarely does thy pace more than trot, from home.",
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        "The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping."
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          "twist",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping."
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          "word": "detorsion"
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  "word": "detortion"
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          "text": "But often, when thy face [i.e., that of a horse] is turned from the stable, thou hast an unaccountable desire to place it in the position occupied by thy tail: thou stoppest, coughest, shyest, and erst, with swift detorsion, turnest round, then, with sidelong glance of my magic caduceus, ominously wagging between the horizon and thy ample sides, I incite thee on, but rarely does thy pace more than trot, from home.",
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        "The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping."
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        "(dated) The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping."
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