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misspooling

misspooling is the present participle and gerund of misspool.

Meaning of misspool

Verb

misspool (third-person singular simple present misspools, present participle misspooling, simple past and past participle misspooled)

  1. To spool incorrectly.
    • As discussed earlier, large fleet angles can lead to misspooling of the cable on the storage drum and cable wear due to rubbing on adjacent wraps on the drum or on sheave flanges.1982, Alan H. Driscoll, Handbook of Oceanographic Winch, Wire and Cable Technology, pages 4-18

Questions about misspooling

What is misspooling the present participle and gerund of?
Misspooling is the present participle and gerund of misspool.

Words near misspooling in the dictionary

  1. missplitting
  2. misspoke
  3. misspoken
  4. misspool
  5. misspooled
  6. misspooling
  7. misspools
  8. misspot
  9. misspots
  10. misspotted
  11. misspotting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misspooling (page history and authors); misspool (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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