misshelve

Meanings

verbmisshelve (third-person singular simple present misshelves, present participle misshelving, simple past and past participle misshelved)

present singular third person misshelves · participle present misshelving · participle past misshelved · past misshelved

transitiveTo place on the wrong shelf; to misclassify.
1 more example
She scoured the library for misshelved volumes, reread five surrounding volumes, reviewed her early notes but never found that paragraph imprinted in her memory, “the words filling less than half a page, the address on Clark Street, the remarks about her appearance, all of which where typed up by a machine in need of new ribbon.”
2007 February 11, Elizabeth Schmidt, “Erasing Slavery”, in New York Times