misweave

plural misweaves

1. An imperfection or defect in fabric that results from an error in the process of weaving.

   Any misweave voided that day's production.

   2012, Al Hampel, Sticking My Ads Out: It’s Not Creative Unless It Sells., page A-8

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   By imperfect, we mean a streaked gore or probably a misweave here and there.

   1909, William Borsodi, Advertising Cyclopedia of Selling Phrases, page 1075

   The huge bolts of cloth had to be checked for imperfections such as slubs and misweaves.

   2014, Thomas Allison, Moonshine Memories, page 98

2. broadlyAn anomaly or aberration.

   Maybe this is just an aberration. The misweave in the kilim which placates Allah.

   2001, Mameve Medwed, Mail

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   Either way it wasn't much of an invitation to Reggie into the dark misweave of the material world.

   2001, Stephen Beachy, Distortion, page 76

   Labelle saw the duo slur into focus and initially assumed he was looking through some misweave in reality at receiving spirits on the other side: a young Indian girl crunching over the pebbles, leading a bearded man on a rope.

   2013, Christopher Howard, Prince of the World: Stories

present singular third person misweaves · participle present misweaving · past miswove · participle past miswoven

1. To weave improperly.

   though Fraud misweave Such shapes as His and thine, to disbelieve That ye exist—we dare!

   1877, Thomas Cooper, The Poetical Works of Thomas Cooper, page 142

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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, page 14

   All its events are singly spun and woven together in the loom of Providence. The Weaver breaks no threads, loses none, misweaves none.

   1888, David James Burrell, The Religions of the World, page 61

   We know that misunderstanding on every level results from contextual disharmony, the misweaving of perceptions or ideas.

   1991, Ben-Ami Scharfstein, The Dilemma of Context, page 4