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Missend

Missend \Mis*send"\, v. t. To send amiss or incorrectly.

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missend

vb. (context transitive English) To send incorrectly or to the wrong destination.

Usage examples of "missend".

One did some simple thing - started a strike, or sawed lumber too short, or burned a wheat-field, or put nails in harvesting machinery, or missent perishable goods, or changed signal-lights on railroads, or drove copper nails into fruit-trees, so they died.

The boom was long, as long as they could manage to lash together, with support lines up to the cutter's masthead, but still there was danger of a missent cannonball hitting the cutter.