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Definition of Misthrown
1. misthrow [v] - See also: misthrow
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Literary usage of Misthrown
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1. The United States Post Office: Its Past Record, Present Condition, and by Daniel Calhoun Roper (1917)
"Abbreviation of the State name is a common cause of mail being missent or misthrown
by post-office clerks. When abbreviated in the usual way, ..."
2. Thayendanegea: An Historico-military Drama by J. B. Mackenzie (1898)
"[advance) On our side, also, of the sheet include The vain diversion of Montgomery,
Against an unoffending Canada; That courted failure—misthrown seed from ..."
3. Postal Salaries: Hearings, Sixty-sixth Congress, First [second] Session by United States, Congress, Joint Commission on Postal Salaries (1920)
"In a test of one hour's time he distributed 3,01)8 letters with only 39 misthrown,
81 separations. The record of a mailing clerk in this office shows his ..."
4. Hearings Before the Joint Commission on Postal Salaries, Congress of the by United States, Congress, Joint Commission on Postal Salaries (1919)
"... letters with only 39 misthrown, 81 separations. If he is an assistant in an
executive office he must know all of the general ..."
5. I Crown Thee King: A Romance by Max Pemberton (1902)
"None might charge him with foreboding if, at such a time, he said that the night
was lost, the hazard misthrown. All had been ventured, all staked vainly. ..."
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