misscrew

present singular third person misscrews · participle present misscrewing · participle past misscrewed · past misscrewed

1. To screw in incorrectly.

   For minutes he stood staring down at the engine, fixing in his mind every misscrewed nut and hammered bolt end, every sloppy connection and speck of rust.

   1916, Clinton Holland Stagg, High Speed, page 80

   1 more example

   Robert Greenfield per Countess Harcourt, 2 Sept. 1829, 'wilfully impeding the work of one of the mills by misscrewing part of the machinery — 25 lashes' ;

   1997, Ian Duffield, James Bradley, Representing Convicts, page 159