misstop

verb

verb

Etymology From mis- + stop.

Rare To stop badly or wrongly.

[…] the slipping or breaking of a string or the misstopping of a fret.1894, Edna Lyall, To Right the Wrong, page 260:
Even within an apparently English-only range, sounds are difficult enough to govern, as Quince's misstopped Prologue makes clear.2014, Michael Saenger, Interlinguicity, Internationality, and Shakespeare:

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