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mispull en · NOUN
Etymology
From mis- + pull.
Meanings
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An act of mispulling.
A mispull was automatically awarded zero.
1998 March-April, Marcus J.K. Bankes, John E. Crossman, Roger J.H. Emery, “A standard method of shoulder strength measurement for the Constant score with a spring balance”, in Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, volume 7, number 2:On the third night he is supremely confident, and cruelly disabused by his mispull of the third card.
2010, Lauren G. Leighton, Esoteric Tradition in Russian Romantic Literature, page 142:On January 11, however, Ochoa again committed a mispull. A Smitty's store had ordered eight cases of size 138 red delicious apples and six size 138 golden delicious apples. Ochoa, however, sent them 14 size 138 golden delicious.
1990, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 1016:It was my first mispull at the Archives.
2015, Erik Schubach, London Harmony: Small Fry:Today, a management spokesperson reports, mispulls and misfiles are about 30 percent lower than they were under the old setup.
1980, Supervision - Volumes 42-43, page 23:At other times, the Klamath unit handles regular trimming while the 1-M unit can accommodate material that must be rehandled, such as mispulls, retrim, regrade and remanufacture.
1982, Timber Processing Industry - Volume 7, page 12:
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mispull en · VERB
Etymology
From mis- + pull.
Meanings
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To pull badly, using incorrect technique.
The second ball of his second over is a shortish, straight delivery that Hussey, cramped for room, mispulls straight.
2011, Matthew Hancock, Paul Johnson, 766 and All That, page 177:Jess's eyelids had slid down over those icy-blue eyes, almost closed, almost crooked, like mispulled blinds.
2018, Glen Hirshberg, Nothing to Devour: Motherless Children #3:Recruits had the appearance of “mispulled taffy."
2005, Alan D. Gaff, Blood in the Argonne: The "Lost Battalion" of World War I, page 23:
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To pull something that one should not pull.
The tip would read as follows: never defend on the basis that your expert opponent has mispulled his card.
2003, Michael Schoenborn, “Rabbit Bridge”, in Ray Lee, Linda Lee, editors, Northern Lights: The Best of Canadian Master Point Magazine, page 109:To his analysis may be added the same pattern in the concluding plot unit of chapter 6: when Germann mispulls the queen of spades instead of the ace, he leans forward stunned and leans back, leans forward again to see the queen of spaces wink at him, and falls back from the table.
2010, Lauren G. Leighton, Esoteric Tradition in Russian Romantic Literature, page 141:A mispulled switch . . One of those minor accidents common to electric lighting systems .
1920, Bertrand W. Sinclair, Poor Man's Rock, page 179:Where are the losses factored in from rework correcting mispulled items because the pull list was hard to read?
1994, Mark L. Richie, Quality Management for Educational Technology Services, page 160:This 0.2 % covers miscellaneous breakage, some minor pilferage, mispulled product, and so on.
1991, Thomas J. Beirne, Henry Dauderis, Financial Accounting: An Introduction to Decision Making, page 371:
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