Dispart
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -É‘Ë(ɹ)t
Origin 1
From Italian dispartire and its source, Latin dispartire.
Full definition of dispart
Verb
- (now rare) To part, separate.
- 1590, Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene, I.x:that same mighty man of God,
That bloud-red billowes like a walled front
On either side disparted with his rod .... - EmersonThe world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted.
- (obsolete) To divide, divide up, distribute.
- Spenser Faerie Queene, II.xi:Them in twelue troupes their Captain did dispart
And round about in fittest steades did place ....
Origin 2
Noun
dispart
(plural disparts)- The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.
- Eng. Cyc.On account of the dispart, the line of aim or line of metal, which is in a plane passing through the axis of the gun, always makes a small angle with the axis.
- A piece of metal placed on the muzzle, or near the trunnions, on the top of a piece of ordnance, to make the line of sight parallel to the axis of the bore.
Verb
- (transitive) To furnish with a dispart sight.
- (transitive) To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.
- LucarEvery gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece.