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mishammer en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + hammer.

Meanings

1. To hammer improperly.
   • If they cut a board wrong or mishammered a nail, the board went into the scrap heap. 1996, Earl Proulx, Yankee Magazine's Make It Last, page 114:
   • Now in its 46th year, the Society welcomes everyone who can sing, act, dance, paint, sew, draw, hammer nails or remove nails that have been mishammered. 1993, Discover: The Greater Ann Arbor Area, page 75:
   • When my most jesus fear is crucified By ready nails at every stranger's eye, By christian words mishammered at my ear, They are my fears, not I, that die. 1947, Here and Now, page 63:
   • I should know to be still when, down below the house in his workshop, he is mishammering a nail. 2008, Kathleen Stewart, The After Life: A Memoir, page 20:

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