misblow
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2MISBLOW + NOUN
ax
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with
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noun
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.
"Can he have fainted from loss of blood?" said Bluff, still having in mind a picture of a woodsman who had severed an artery by a misblow of his ax.
An instance of blowing incorrectly.
Also we changed our method of blowing to eliminate misblows.
Soon it was discovered that one of the governing factors was the temperature of the pin prior to blowing. Above 220°F, the thermoplastic stuc to the pin and resulted in a misblow.
verb
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.
They are also easily adversely affected by the misblowing of oxygen.
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6A 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.
Wiktionary"Can he have fainted from loss of blood?" said Bluff, still having in mind a picture of a woodsman who had severed an artery by a misblow of his ax.
WiktionaryNow, therefore, holding my breath in dread lest I should rouse the castle with a misblow, I began to swing and strike each blow heavier and more confident than the last.
WiktionaryThese 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 blowhea
WiktionaryThey are also easily adversely affected by the misblowing of oxygen.
WiktionaryThe sounds from Barb's clarinet began to take the shape of a melody, played quietly at first, hesitantly, with a misblown note here and there.
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