4 entries under this word
v. t. [imp. & p. p. DISPARTED; p. pr. & vb. n. DISPARTING.] [Prefix dis and part, q. v.; O. Fr. despartir, departir, N. Fr. départir, Pr. & O. Sp. departir, N. Sp. & Pg. despartir, It. dispartire, spartire. Cf. DISSEVER.] To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to burst; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers; disparted chaos. Themselves they did dispart. Spencer.
To separate; to open; to cleave.
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. Eng. Cyc.
Sense 2. (Gun.) A piece of metal cast on the muzzle 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.
v. t. 1. (Gun.) To make allowance for the dispart in, when taking aim.
Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece. Lucas.
Sense 2. (Gun.) To do away with the dispart of, by making the diameter of the base-ring and swell of the muzzle equal.