• Dispart

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t

    Origin 1

    From Italian dispartire and its source, Latin dispartire.

    Full definition of dispart

    Verb

    1. (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.
    2. (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)
    1. 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.
    2. 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

    1. (transitive) To furnish with a dispart sight.
    2. (transitive) To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.
      • LucarEvery gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece.
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