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misstitch

misstitch noun: an improperly sewn stitch.

Noun

misstitch (plural misstitches)

  1. An improperly sewn stitch.
    • Some kind of embroidery occupied her fingers, and if she sometimes made a misstitch from the tears which dimmed her eyes, she patiently wiped them away and began again.1869, Metta Fuller Victor, The Figure Eight
    • Miss Cynthia winced, made two misstitches, but worked on.1901, John Trotwood Moore, A Summer Hymnal: A Romance of Tennessee, page 108

Verb

misstitch (third-person singular simple present misstitches, present participle misstitching, simple past and past participle misstitched)

  1. To make an error in stitching.
    • Keep extra yarn available to replace strands that have been misstitched; ripping such misstitched strands out of a canvas invariably damages their fibers so they cannot be reused.1973, The Custom Look, page 192
    • Even when the two fields were misstitched intentionally with errors of ±50 or ±100 μm, noticeable dents or protuberances were not observed at the stitched parts, and when the boundaries were accurately superimposed, almost no stiching traces were observed.2001, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, page 1513

Examples of misstitch in a sentence

  • On the yellow silk sofa, scrawny Hepzibah made a misstitch on her sampler, and Mother Prudence made her take it out.2010, Marion Moore Hill, Deadly Will:
  • Emma's voice was direly earnest, but even so, she didn't look up from her needle, either because she was too nervous to meet Eliza's eye or because she didn't want to risk a misstitch.2019, Melissa de la Cruz, All for One, page 159:
  • I often think back on this moment and wonder if the interruptions had caused her to misstitch me in some fundamental way.2008, Elle - Issues 273-275, page 175:

Forms of misstitch

Noun
pluralmisstitches
Verb
third-person singular presentmisstitches
present participlemisstitching
past participlemisstitched
pastmisstitched

Origin of misstitch

From mis- + stitch.

Questions about misstitch

What does misstitch mean?
Misstitch means an improperly sewn stitch.
How do you use misstitch in a sentence?
On the yellow silk sofa, scrawny Hepzibah made a misstitch on her sampler, and Mother Prudence made her take it out.
What part of speech is misstitch?
Misstitch can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of misstitch?
The plural of misstitch is misstitches.

Words near misstitch in the dictionary

  1. misstepper
  2. missteppers
  3. misstepping
  4. missteppings
  5. missteps
  6. misstitch
  7. misstitched
  8. misstitches
  9. misstitching
  10. misstock
  11. misstocked

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