missew

present singular third person missews · participle present missewing · past missewed · participle past missewn · participle past missewed

1. To sew badly, with errors.

   Now turn this sleeve over and show me what we have missewn.

   2009, Jay Lake, Green, page 51

   4 more examples

   But the chances of miscutting and missewing will be greater than with the 2-bar unit and, since the tapering intervals are larger, the tapered edge will not be as smooth.

   1968, “A Method for Tapering Purse Seines”, in Commercial Fisheries Abstracts - Volume 21, page 5

   The supervisor noticed that the Grievant had missewed a sham and helped her assemble her work.

   1991, Randy Hodson, Labor Arbitration Information System, page 289

   A similar but more quickly developing series of events occurred at an apparel factory when workers were accused of missewing garments.

   2001, Dignity at Work, page 99

   "No." He shook his head. “Just shit they mis-sewed. But still classy.”

   2014, Mark Powell, The Sheltering: A Novel