misshelve
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛlv
Verb
misshelve (third-person singular simple present misshelves, present participle misshelving, simple past and past participle misshelved)
- (transitive) To place on the wrong shelf; to misclassify.
- 2007 February 11, Elizabeth Schmidt, “Erasing Slavery”, in New York Times:
- She scoured the library for misshelved volumes, reread five surrounding volumes, reviewed her early notes but never found that paragraph imprinted in her memory, “the words filling less than half a page, the address on Clark Street, the remarks about her appearance, all of which where typed up by a machine in need of new ribbon.”
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