misroll

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ roll

Verb

misroll (third-person singular simple present misrolls, present participle misrolling, simple past and past participle misrolled)

1. To roll incorrectly (any sense)
   • 1973, Yearly Proceedings - Association of Iron and Steel Engineers, page 100:

     One is the reduction of down-time resulting from the reduced misrolling because of the automatic setup of the rougher and finisher, and the other is […]

   • 2006, David Shrayer-Petrov, Maxim D. Shrayer, Autumn in Yalta: A Novel and Three Stories, page 58:

     If you're right, Dodonov, then shoot my boy, and me, and shoot my husband, who is spilling his blood at the front. Because I, Dodonov, and my son, and my husband, and my sisters, we all are hook-nosed and misroll our r's.

   • 2015, Virginia Gavian Rivers, Prelude to Genocide: Incident in Erzerum:

     A brass brazier crowned one man with a misrolled carpet hanging from his shoulders to his feet that likely weighed what he did.

   • 2015, Maxim D. Shrayer, An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature, page 1131:

     in both texts, Jewish characters are made fun of because of the way they misroll their Russian r's.

Noun

misroll (plural misrolls)

1. An act or instance of misrolling.
   • 1925, Cigar Makers' Official Journal - Volumes 49-52, page 11:

     Their work consists of examining cigars and to throw out all that are too large, too small, misrolls, etc.

   • 1960, Philippine Mining Journal - Volume 2, page 29:

     One particular feature of this type of shear is its capability of cutting moving stock or steel bar, not only at any point between both ends, so that whenever a misroll occurs, the bar can instantly be cut to save it from being totally misrolled.

   • 1980, Geronimo Q. Quadra, Trends of Decisions on Labor and Industrial Disputes by the Office of the President/Prime Minister, page 49:

     Respondent corporation, in its answer, contended that Catigbay was dismissed because of his involvement in a fistfight with Barnardo Longaza, the tilting operator at the roll mill, due to the misroll of roughing ingots by Catigbay resulting in damages to company property and in utter insubordination to the instructions of Longaza.

   • 2005, John Goodger, The Druperman Tapes:

     Between the heart-stopping near loss with Sheila's misroll of the dice and the thrill of victory on the very next roll, it had been an emotional roller-coaster ride.

   • 2022, E. M. Tappan, The Little Book of the War:

     It never makes a misstep or misroll—and wanders around with an irresistibly comical air of going all by itself and knowing just what it is about.