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noun
Dispart  n.  
1.
(Gun.) The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance. "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.
(Gun.) 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; called also dispart sight, and muzzle sight.



verb
Dispart  v. t.  (past & past part. disparted; pres. part. disparting)  To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers. (Archaic) "Them in twelve troops their captain did dispart." "The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted."



Dispart  v. t.  
1.
(Gun.) To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim. "Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece."
2.
(Gun.) To furnish with a dispart sight.



Dispart  v. i.  To separate, to open; to cleave.






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"Dispart" Quotes from Famous Books



... before that fact, that Life and Death, Stay there at gaze, till it dispart, dispread, As though a star should open out, all sides, Grow the world on you, as it is ...
— Robert Browning • Edward Dowden

... figure, by which the elevation or depression is read off, nor the still more exposed and rather ricketty arrangement by which the rear sight is arranged to rise and fall with the gun, and allowance for dispart avoided. The recoil of the gun is resisted through and by the segment blocks in the side cheeks, and by the heavy radius bars, etc., and thus transferred to the carriage itself. This moves upon four ...
— Scientific American, Vol.22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 • Various

... once as he named the ineffable Name, And pile him a palace straight, to pleasure the princess he loved! Would it might tarry like his, the beautiful building of mine, This which my keys in a crowd pressed and importuned to 10 raise! Ah, one and all, how they helped, would dispart now and now combine, Zealous to hasten the work, heighten their master his praise! And one would bury his brow with a blind plunge down to hell, Burrow awhile and build broad on the roots of things, Then up again swim into sight, having based me my palace 15 well, Founded it, fearless ...
— Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning • Robert Browning

... anatomy; decomposition &c 49; cutting instrument &c (sharpness) 253; buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw. separatist. V. be disjoined &c; come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces; peel off; get loose. disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair^; divorce, part, dispart^, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate; set apart, keep apart; insulate, isolate; throw out of gear; cut adrift; loose; unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock &c (fix) 43, unpack, unravel; disentangle; set free &c (liberate) 750. sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... cannon were usually conspicuous by their absence in the early days. A dispart sight (an instrument similar to the modern infantry rifle sight), which compensated for the difference in diameter between the breech and the muzzle, was used in 1610, but the average artilleryman still aimed by sighting over the barrel. The ...
— Artillery Through the Ages - A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America • Albert Manucy



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