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misspool

verb

Etymology

From mis- + spool.

  1. derived from *(s)pel-✻
  2. derived from *spōlǭ✻
  3. derived from *spōla✻
  4. derived from spoele
  5. derived from spole
  6. inherited from spole
  7. prefixed as misspool — “mis + spool”

Definitions

  1. To spool incorrectly.

    • As discussed earlier, large fleet angles can lead to misspooling of the cable on the storage drum and cable wear due to rubbing on adjacent wraps on the drum or on sheave flanges.
    • They could have miswired the dynamite in the dark. They could have misplaced it on the tank, misspooled the connecting wire.
    • SOTs done with wire rope misspooled like this will destroy the spanwire in 125 cycles.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA