dispart

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t

Etymology 1

From Italian dispartire and its source, Latin dispartire.

Verb

dispart (third-person singular simple present disparts, present participle disparting, simple past and past participle disparted)

1. (transitive, now rare) To part, separate.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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

   • 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation:

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

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To divide, divide up, distribute.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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

Etymology 2

Noun

dispart (plural disparts)

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

dispart (third-person singular simple present disparts, present participle disparting, simple past and past participle disparted)

1. (transitive) To furnish with a dispart sight.
2. (transitive) To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.
   • 1583, Richard Lucars, Arte of Shooting:

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