mispour

mispour verb: to make a mistake while pouring.

Verb

mispour (third-person singular simple present mispours, present participle mispouring, simple past and past participle mispoured)

To make a mistake while pouring.
- That is, he becomes so dependent on the optical pyrometer that when the pyrometer goes bad –and they all do with the best of checking and with the best of care you are frequently "up against it” for the pourer has become so dependent on it that he mispours on a series of castings.1925, Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, page 493
- Political debate leads the coffee boy to spill his tray, and the informally dressed figure on the right to mispour his coffee.1986, John Brewer, The Common People and Politics, 1750-1790s, page 128

mispour (plural mispours)

The act or result of mispouring.
- After one such mispour, the difficulty was corrected by extending the graphite pouring tube almost into the mouth of the mold.1955, Henry A. Saller, Robert F. Dickerson, E. L. Foster, Induction-melted Zirconium and Zirconium Alloys, page 6
- In the present foundry there are occasional mispours in which the crucible liner and crucible induction heating coils become splattered with metal; also, the mold and lower parts of the furnace sometimes get splattered from a mispour.1970, Proceedings of the Conference on Hot Laboratories and Equipment, page 94

Juice will be mispoured, egg shells will be mistakenly dropped into the cake mix.2000, Paul Bonel, Jennie Lindon, Playwork: A Guide to Good Practice, page 94:
I drank all the mispours and bar-keep's rejects, that's when I learned how much I liked drinking in the afternoon.2007, Kathryn Trueblood, The Baby Lottery, page 137:
Oops may quite appropriately acknowledge a splash of milk on starched linen from a slight mispour but not a stream of boiling water on the thigh of one's hostess.2016, Ulrike Stange, Emotive Interjections in British English, page 62:

Verb
third-person singular present	mispours
present participle	mispouring
past participle	mispoured
past	mispoured
Noun
plural	mispours

From mis- + pour.

What does mispour mean?: Mispour means to make a mistake while pouring.
How do you use mispour in a sentence?: Juice will be mispoured, egg shells will be mistakenly dropped into the cake mix.
What part of speech is mispour?: Mispour can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of mispour?: The past tense of mispour is mispoured.

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