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missewing

missewing is the present participle and gerund of missew.

Meaning of missew

Verb

missew (third-person singular simple present missews, present participle missewing, simple past missewed, past participle missewn or missewed)

  1. To sew badly, with errors.
    • But the chances of miscutting and missewing will be greater than with the 2-bar unit and, since the tapering intervals are larger, the tapered edge will not be as smooth.1968, “A Method for Tapering Purse Seines”, in Commercial Fisheries Abstracts - Volume 21, page 5

Questions about missewing

What is missewing the present participle and gerund of?
Missewing is the present participle and gerund of missew.

Words near missewing in the dictionary

  1. misseth
  2. missets
  3. missetting
  4. missew
  5. missewed
  6. missewing
  7. missewn
  8. missews
  9. missex
  10. missexed
  11. missexes

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