Definition of "mismend"

mismend

verb
third-person singular simple present mismends, present participle mismending, simple past and past participle mismended
1. (transitive) To mend improperly; to attempt to fix without success.
  Quotations
  A flash of something like a look of scorn darted from under the brows of the cynical Grindlines, his very nose curled with angry disapprobation, as he threw down a pen which he had been mending or mismending, and muttered — A - M - P - L - I - T - I - C - A - T - I - O - N !!
  1856, William Arundell Harris, The Pilgrim Minstrel, and Wreck of the John, Emigrant Ship, on the Manacle Rocks, May 2nd, 1855, page x
  He cannot see well, mislays his glasses, and frequently mismends the nets.
  1971, Nancy Anne Dyer, Tokugawa to Meiji Japan: a Resource Guide for Teachers, page 140
  They walked with an ease that bespoke strength, bespoke limbs that had never been cracked and mismended, never felt the ravages of age.
  2010, Clive Barker, Galilee, page 80