misstop
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misstop (third-person singular simple present misstops, present participle misstopping, simple past and past participle misstopped)
- (rare) To stop badly or wrongly.
- 1894, Edna Lyall, To Right the Wrong, page 260:
- […] the slipping or breaking of a string or the misstopping of a fret.
- 2014, Michael Saenger, Interlinguicity, Internationality, and Shakespeare:
- Even within an apparently English-only range, sounds are difficult enough to govern, as Quince's misstopped Prologue makes clear.