Dispart

Quick meaning: Dispart is a verb meaning (transitive, now rare) To part, separate.

Meaning

(transitive, now rare) To part, separate.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

Word Forms

• disparts
• disparting
• disparted

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include separate, depart, dissever, part, discind, seperate.

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