mishammer

present singular third person mishammers · participle present mishammering · participle past mishammered · past mishammered

1. To hammer improperly.

   If they cut a board wrong or mishammered a nail, the board went into the scrap heap.

   1996, Earl Proulx, Yankee Magazine's Make It Last, page 114

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   When my most jesus fear is crucified By ready nails at every stranger's eye, By christian words mishammered at my ear, They are my fears, not I, that die.

   1947, Here and Now, page 63

   Now in its 46th year, the Society welcomes everyone who can sing, act, dance, paint, sew, draw, hammer nails or remove nails that have been mishammered.

   1993, Discover: The Greater Ann Arbor Area, page 75

   I should know to be still when, down below the house in his workshop, he is mishammering a nail.

   2008, Kathleen Stewart, The After Life: A Memoir, page 20