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dispart en · VERB · etymology 1

Etymology

From Italian dispartire and its source, Latin dispartire.

Meanings

1. (archaic, transitive) To part, separate.
   • […] that same mighty man of God, / That bloud-red billowes like a walled front / On either side disparted with his rod […] 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
   • The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted. 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation:
   • […] tenderly unfringe / Your long and lustrous lashes; cluster down / The mantling glory of deep fragrant hair, / Disparted from each forehead, myrtle-wreath'd, […] 1861, John Byrne Leicester Warren (Baron de Tabley), The Threshold of Atrides. [In Verse.] By George F. Preston (page 62)
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To divide, divide up, distribute.
   • Them in twelue troupes their Captain did dispart / And round about in fittest steades did place […] 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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dispart en · NOUN · etymology 2

Meanings

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.

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dispart en · VERB · etymology 2

Meanings

1. (transitive) To furnish with a dispart sight.
2. (transitive) To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.
   • Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece. 1583, Richard Lucars, Arte of Shooting:

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