Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To spoil the meter or measure of (verses) by reading them badly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb rare To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

mis- +‎ meter

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