misblow
/ˈmɪsbləʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A blow that lands incorrectly.
noun
An instance of blowing incorrectly.
verb
To blow incorrectly.
Example Sentences
- "A misblow at any point would have meant a loss of thousands of dollars; but such was the skill of the accomplished cleavers that not once did this occur."
- ""Can he have fainted from loss of blood?" said Bluff, still having in mind a picture of a woodsman who had severed an artery by a misblow of his ax."
- "Now, therefore, holding my breath in dread lest I should rouse the castle with a misblow, I began to swing and strike each blow heavier and more confident than the last."
- "It has an eye large enough to admit a small sledge handle, and the handle should be made of good hickory with some surplus stock near the eye, as it is liable to get many bruises from careless handling and misblows."
- "Also we changed our method of blowing to eliminate misblows."
- "Soon it was discovered that one of the governing factors was the temperature of the pin prior to blowing. Above 220°F, the thermoplastic stuc to the pin and resulted in a misblow."