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Dispart
noun, verb
Definitions
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."
Etymology
From Italian dispartire and its source, Latin dispartire.
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