misstring

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ string.

Verb

misstring (third-person singular simple present misstrings, present participle misstringing, simple past and past participle misstrung)

1. To string incorrectly.
   • 1989, Threads Magazine - Issues 20-25, page 67:

     If you've misstrung a bead in the middle of a row, you can break it with the pliers, but grab it sideways at the holes above the weft, not from top to.

   • 1998 Spring, Marcel Kinsbourne, “Unity and diversity in the human brain: evidence from injury”, in Daedalus, volume 127, number 2:

     Percepts do not appear to be strung together, because brain damaged patients do not report them to be misstrung (say, a cat with paws protruding from its head and its ears on its tail).

   • 2022, Corinne T. Field, LaKisha Michelle Simmons, The Global History of Black Girlhood:

     These days, our two-part harmony feels more like a single instrument misstrung in the caught breath of a connoisseur.