misstop

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ stop

Verb

misstop (third-person singular simple present misstops, present participle misstopping, simple past and past participle misstopped)

1. (rare) To stop badly or wrongly.
   • 1894, Edna Lyall, To Right the Wrong, page 260:

     […] the slipping or breaking of a string or the misstopping of a fret.

   • 2014, Michael Saenger, Interlinguicity, Internationality, and Shakespeare:

     Even within an apparently English-only range, sounds are difficult enough to govern, as Quince's misstopped Prologue makes clear.

Anagrams

• imposts, mispost, misspot