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noun
Dispart  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."
2.
(Gun.) 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; called also dispart sight, and muzzle sight.


verb
Dispart  v. t.  (past & past part. disparted; pres. part. disparting)  To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers. (Archaic) "Them in twelve troops their captain did dispart." "The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted."


Dispart  v. t.  
1.
(Gun.) To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim. "Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece."
2.
(Gun.) To furnish with a dispart sight.


Dispart  v. i.  To separate, to open; to cleave.





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... dispart; the sapphire dye In beauty spreads o'er the western sky, Cloud-fires blaze o'er the Gate of Gold, Gleaming and glowing, fold on fold—All blue above, all peace below, Nor waves now rage, nor ...
— California Sketches, Second Series • O. P. Fitzgerald
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... unfathomable sea, and time, and tears, The deeds of heroes and the crimes of kings Dispart us; and the river of events Has, for an age of years, to east and west More widely borne our cradles. Thou to me Art foreign, as when seamen at the dawn Descry a land far off, and know not which. So I approach uncertain; so I cruise Round thy mysterious islet, ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
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