dispart means to part, separate. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
verb
- To part, separate.“[…] that same mighty man of God, / That bloud-red billowes like a walled front / On either side disparted with his rod […]”
- To divide, divide up, distribute.“Them in twelue troupes their Captain did dispart / And round about in fittest steades did place […]”
- To furnish with a dispart sight.
- To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.“Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece.”
noun
- 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.”
- 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.