What does "dispart" mean?

The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.

What is a synonym for "dispart"?

Common synonyms include: broach, chink, cleave, crack, cut, decide.

noun, verb

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Noun

1
The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.
"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."
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
To part, separate. archaic, transitive
"[…] that same mighty man of God, / That bloud-red billowes like a walled front / On either side disparted with his rod […]"
2
To furnish with a dispart sight. transitive
3
To divide, divide up, distribute. intransitive, obsolete
"Them in twelue troupes their Captain did dispart / And round about in fittest steades did place […]"
4
To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim. transitive
"Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece."

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

From Italian dispartire and its source, Latin dispartire.

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