Dispart

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

(transitive, now rare) To part, separate..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, now rare) To part, separate.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To divide, divide up, distribute.
3. The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.
4. 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.
5. (transitive) To furnish with a dispart sight.
6. (transitive) To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.

Example Sentences

[…] tenderly unfringe / Your long and lustrous lashes; cluster down / The mantling glory of deep fragrant hair, / Disparted from each forehead, myrtle-wreath'd, […]

[…] that same mighty man of God, / That bloud-red billowes like a walled front / On either side disparted with his rod […]

The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted.

Them in twelue troupes their Captain did dispart / And round about in fittest steades did place […]

1854-1862, Charles Knight, "DISPART", in English Cyclopaedia 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.

Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece.

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• disparts
• disparting
• disparted

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