misroll
misroll verb: to roll incorrectly (any sense).
Verb
misroll (third-person singular simple present misrolls, present participle misrolling, simple past and past participle misrolled)
- To roll incorrectly (any sense)
- One is the reduction of down-time resulting from the reduced misrolling because of the automatic setup of the rougher and finisher, and the other is[…]1973, Yearly Proceedings - Association of Iron and Steel Engineers, page 100
- If you're right, Dodonov, then shoot my boy, and me, and shoot my husband, who is spilling his blood at the front. Because I, Dodonov, and my son, and my husband, and my sisters, we all are hook-nosed and misroll our r's.2006, David Shrayer-Petrov, Maxim D. Shrayer, Autumn in Yalta: A Novel and Three Stories, page 58
Noun
misroll (plural misrolls)
- An act or instance of misrolling.
- Their work consists of examining cigars and to throw out all that are too large, too small, misrolls, etc.1925, Cigar Makers' Official Journal - Volumes 49-52, page 11
- One particular feature of this type of shear is its capability of cutting moving stock or steel bar, not only at any point between both ends, so that whenever a misroll occurs, the bar can instantly be cut to save it from being totally misrolled.1960, Philippine Mining Journal - Volume 2, page 29
Examples of misroll in a sentence
- A brass brazier crowned one man with a misrolled carpet hanging from his shoulders to his feet that likely weighed what he did.2015, Virginia Gavian Rivers, Prelude to Genocide: Incident in Erzerum:
- in both texts, Jewish characters are made fun of because of the way they misroll their Russian r's.2015, Maxim D. Shrayer, An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature, page 1131:
- Between the heart-stopping near loss with Sheila's misroll of the dice and the thrill of victory on the very next roll, it had been an emotional roller-coaster ride.2005, John Goodger, The Druperman Tapes:
- It never makes a misstep or misroll—and wanders around with an irresistibly comical air of going all by itself and knowing just what it is about.2022, E. M. Tappan, The Little Book of the War:
Forms of misroll
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | misrolls |
| present participle | misrolling |
| past participle | misrolled |
| past | misrolled |
| Noun | |
| plural | misrolls |
Origin of misroll
From mis- + roll.
Questions about misroll
- What does misroll mean?
- Misroll means to roll incorrectly (any sense).
- How do you use misroll in a sentence?
- A brass brazier crowned one man with a misrolled carpet hanging from his shoulders to his feet that likely weighed what he did.
- What part of speech is misroll?
- Misroll can be a verb or a noun.
- What is the past tense of misroll?
- The past tense of misroll is misrolled.
Words near misroll in the dictionary
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