mismeter
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]mismeter (third-person singular simple present mismeters, present participle mismetering, simple past and past participle mismetered)
- (transitive, poetry) To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse.
References
[edit]- “mismeter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.