misdraft

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ draft

Pronunciation

• (noun) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪsdɹæft/, /ˈmɪsdɹɑːft/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /mɪsˈdɹæft/, /mɪsˈdɹɑːft/

Noun

misdraft (plural misdrafts)

1. An error in the process of drafting (any sense).
   • 1899, Transactions of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers:

     In weaving, the defects which cling to the goods to the very end are temple-marks, which show up on light shade satines, on linings and beetled work; misdrafts, on twills, welts, etc.; reed-marks, which ruin the finish of the finest satines; and the mixing of mule and ring filling, of American and Egyptian cotton, and of different numbers of filling yarns, which, together with oil stains, are harmful to all grades.

   • 1937, South Africa. Parliament. House of Assembly, Debates of the ... Session of the ... Parliament of the House of Assembly, volume 28:

     Any hon. member who has given any serious attention or thought or any study to the Bill would realise, however, that even in what I may with repect term the silly misdraft of Clause l as it at present stands, this Bill does nothing in the way of dividing the Crown.

   • 1970, Isle of Man. Tynwald. Legislative Council, The Times Reports of Debates in the Manx Legislature, page C-103:

     Clause 4 deals with the form, validity and replacement of a lost licence. But there is, I see, a misprint, or misdraft, I do not know.

   • 1983, Brian Toyne, The U.S. Textile Mill Products Industry, page 10:

     Another reason was the susceptibility of the machine to misdraft.

   • 1985, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) Official Report, page 1112:

     the start of Clause 12(1) takes the opportunity to correct what is referred to as a minor misdraft in the Justices of the Peace Act 1979.

   • 1991, Australian Agricultural Council. Standing Committee on Agriculture, CSIRO, Farm Cattle Handling, page 31:

     If there are large numbers to be drafted off they should be first drafted into a small pen and then released to a larger holding area. This practice saves time if misdrafts occur.

   • 2004, Melliand International - Volumes 10-11, page 107:

     Feeding the sliver in via precondenser and condenser to the feed tray has technological implications, since depending on the sliver weight and volume along with fiber/fiber and fiber/surface friction, a positive sliver tension can be achieved or, in a negative case, an undesirable misdraft.

Verb

misdraft (third-person singular simple present misdrafts, present participle misdrafting, simple past and past participle misdrafted)

1. To make an error while drafting (any sense).
   • 1989, Thomas Hay Donaldson, Credit Risk and Exposure in Securitization and Transactions, page 110:

     And facilities which contain complex options are more likely to be misdrafted by lawyers who do not understand the way in which the transaction is supposed to work and therefore find it hard to express it clearly.

   • 1993, A.M. Crawford, M.L. Tate, J.C. McEwan, G. Kumaramanickavel, K.M. McEwan, K.G. Dodds, P.A. Swarbrick, P. Thompson, “How Reliale are Sheep Pedigrees?”, in Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production, volume 53, page 365:

     In particular, checking ewe tag numbers mated to a particular ram, both prior to and after joining, was essential to detect misdrafting and “fence jumping”.

   • 2000, Mark Lunney, Ken Oliphant, Tort Law: Text and Materials, page 377:

     It should be noted however that rectification is only available where the solicitor misdrafts the will so that it does not reflect the testator's instructions due to a clerical error or a failure to understand his instructions.

   • 2012, J. Roger Knowles, 200 Contractual Problems and their Solutions, page 250:

     If he chose a way which was not in accordance with the legislation because he misdrafted the provision, I can see no reason why, however obvious it was that he had misdrafted the provision, the principles in (the Persimmon case) would come to the rescue.