misspread

English

Etymology

Verb

misspread (third-person singular simple present misspreads, present participle misspreading, simple past and past participle misspread)

To spread incorrectly or inappropriately.
- 1790, Anthony Pasquin (psudonym of John Williams), A Postscript to the New Bath Guide. A poem, page 82:
  Never shall Obloquy your mansion seek, Or Anguish blight the roses on your cheek; Nor vagrant Zephyr insolent misspread The hazel-curling tresses of thy envied head!
- 1987, Ligna Technologies Ltd, Alberta. Canadian Forestry Service, Report on Cement Bonded Particleboard, Its Applications and a Preliminary Assessment of a Plant to be Located in Alberta, page 7:
  Misspread material is fed back to the forming station.
- 1992, National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board, Foundation Engineering, page 39:
  Back brooming to redistribute and realign any misspread aggregate was also carried out.
- 2022 July 28, Luis Rueda Carillo, Klepper Alfrdo Garcia, Nilufer Yalcin, Manan Shah, “Ketamine and its emergence in the field of neurology”, in Cureus:
  Once widely misspread, the belief that ketamine causes ICP elevation has been disproven, leading to its resurgence in the field of medicine.

Noun

misspread (plural misspreads)

An instance of misspreading.
- 1987, Ligna Technologies Ltd, Alberta. Canadian Forestry Service, Report on Cement Bonded Particleboard, Its Applications and a Preliminary Assessment of a Plant to be Located in Alberta, page 7:
  The weight is controlled in order to reject misspreads.