misstring

To string incorrectly.

Verb

  1. To string incorrectly.
    • If you've misstrung a bead in the middle of a row, you can break it with the pliers, but grab it sideways at the holes above the weft, not from top to. - 1989, Threads Magazine - Issues 20-25, page 67:
    • Percepts do not appear to be strung together, because brain damaged patients do not report them to be misstrung (say, a cat with paws protruding from its head and its ears on its tail). - 1998 Spring, Marcel Kinsbourne,...
    • These days, our two-part harmony feels more like a single instrument misstrung in the caught breath of a connoisseur. - 2022, Corinne T. Field, LaKisha Michelle Simmons, The Global History of Black Girlhood:

Origin

From mis- + string.

Forms

misstrings misstringing misstrung