Verb
To pull badly, using incorrect technique.
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Recruits had the appearance of “mispulled taffy."
The second ball of his second over is a shortish, straight delivery that Hussey, cramped for room, mispulls straight.
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Jess's eyelids had slid down over those icy-blue eyes, almost closed, almost crooked, like mispulled blinds.
To pull something that one should not pull.
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A mispulled switch . . One of those minor accidents common to electric lighting systems .
This 0.2 % covers miscellaneous breakage, some minor pilferage, mispulled product, and so on.
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Where are the losses factored in from rework correcting mispulled items because the pull list was hard to read?
The tip would read as follows: never defend on the basis that your expert opponent has mispulled his card.
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.
Noun
An act of mispulling.
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Today, a management spokesperson reports, mispulls and misfiles are about 30 percent lower than they were under the old setup.
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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.
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.
A mispull was automatically awarded zero.
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On the third night he is supremely confident, and cruelly disabused by his mispull of the third card.
It was my first mispull at the Archives.