mismount

present singular third person mismounts · participle present mismounting · participle past mismounted · past mismounted

1. To mount improperly.

   “You can't afford to mismount a tire,” he said.

   1982, Coal Age - Volume 87, Issues 1-6, page 143

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   One afternoon his foreman, Joe, passes John's area just in time to see him mismount a piece on dures.

   1981, Supervisory Management, page 13

   If the gun is mismounted then the eye-barrel relationship is off and the benefits of the gunfit exponentially decrease the farther away the bird is.

   2006, Tom Deck, Orvis Guide to Gunfitting, page 42

plural mismounts

1. countableuncountableThe act or process of mismounting.

   In some cases we also encountered very bad results probably due to the mismount of the sample.

   1987, Yamaguchi Daigaku, Technology Reports of the Yamaguchi University - Volume 4, page 136

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   She was very stiff and lame, and was made more so by a mismount, catching in her saddle and tipping down on the bruised side; but she picked up and went at it again with a will, and after a wobble or two across the road, was bowling along at the same risky pace as before.

   1890, Walter Besant, The Revolt of Man

   This capability can be used to reduce or eliminate significant sources of lost data and processing time, such as operator mismounts, incorrect volume specification, and a number of integrity flaws that are described in the integrity section.

   1978, Michel J. Orceyre, Robert H. Courtney, Gloria R. Bolotsky, Considerations in the Selection of Security Measures for Automatic Data Processing Systems, page 10

   If the gun is mismounted then the eye-barrel relationship is off and the benefits of the gunfit exponentially decrease the farther away the bird is. A mismount at twenty-five yards often leads to a crippled bird, and the dog often has a hard time finding it. Also that same mismount on a forty-yard bird is probably a clean miss.

   2006, Tom Deck, Orvis Guide to Gunfitting, page 42

   A mismount can allow them to rip out of the ski, but this is highly unlikely, since you'll likely be putting even less torque on these bindings.

   2017, Justin Lichter, Shawn Forry, Ultralight Winter Travel, page 146