misblow

/ˈmɪsbləʊ/

Etymology

From mis- + blow.

noun

  1. A blow that lands incorrectly.“A misblow at any point would have meant a loss of thousands of dollars; but such was the skill of the accomplished cleavers that not once did this occur.”
  2. An instance of blowing incorrectly.“Also we changed our method of blowing to eliminate misblows.”

verb

  1. To blow incorrectly.“These requirements imply the use of a sand mixture having a sufficiently long bench life without tendency to crusting in order to avoid misblowing, machine downtime and the cleaning out of the blowhead and blowing holes.”