misspin

present singular third person misspins · participle present misspinning · participle past misspun · past misspun

1. To spin badly (any sense)

   He had pressed too far and misspun the enchantment.

   2015, Lyndon Hardy, Master of the Five Magics

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   Were some ordained their lives in pits to spend, From infant years until their latter end, Nor see creation, hill nor dell nor grove, Their threads of life misspun, the web miswove, Without due knowledge, in their dark abode, Of fellow-man, far less the living God?

   1861, John Ritchie, The Sabbeth Bell. A Poem for the People, page 14

   Positive acting , air-driven Rail Shifting System assures instant stops. No overshifting, misclipping or misspinning.

   1969, Textile Industries - Volume 133, page 128

   Correct my genes; rearrange base pairs of my base and acid into normal life for your dear absence's sake: someone, no one, make the wheel of my misfortune (which chance misspun in sperm or egg) spin again:

   2006, Angela Belli, John L. Coulehan, Primary Care: More Poems by Physicians, page 34

   After all, if Tale-Spin could see itself from the metalevel, it would never misspin a tale.

   2021, Tony Veale, Your Wit Is My Command: Building AIs with a Sense of Humor, page 85

plural misspins

1. An instance of misspinning.

   Ergonomics is a designer's lost art, and the modern high-end dashboard is a "why drive" random maze of soon-to-be-executive mispushes, misspins, and misslides.

   2004, Car and Driver - Volume 50, page 24