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third-person singular simple present disparts, present participle disparting, simple past and past participle disparted
(transitive, now rare) To part, separate. quotations
[…] 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
The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted.
1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation
(intransitive, obsolete) To divide, divide up, distribute. quotations
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
plural disparts
The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance. quotations examples
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.
1854-1862, Charles Knight, "DISPART", in English Cyclopaedia
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. examples
(transitive) To furnish with a dispart sight. examples
(transitive) To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim. quotations examples
Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece.
1583, Richard Lucars, Arte of Shooting