Dispart

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t

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 ....

Noun

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.