missplits

Verb

missplit (third-person singular simple present missplits, present participle missplitting, simple past and past participle missplit)

1. To split incorrectly.
   • In the 1953 program, it was more or less a crash progam in which the Bureau of the Budget on one day told us we could come up here with so much money and that night at 4 o'clock in the morning they finally finished splitting items, and they missplit this particular item and had the estimate too low...1954, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, The Supplemental Appropriation Bill, 1955, page 719
2. (meat processing) To incompletely sever the spinal column with a saw.
   • After observing them at work for some 5 minutes, Ludlow concluded it was Beedle who missplit 10 to 30 percent of the cattle he sawed.1973, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 879

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