• Rhymes:-ɑː(ɹ)t

FromItaliandispartire and its source,Latindispartire.

dispart (third-person singular simple presentdisparts,present participledisparting,simple past and past participledisparted)

1. (transitive, nowrare) Topart,separate.
   • 1590,Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, inThe Faerie Queene. […], London:[…] [John Wolfe] forWilliam Ponsonbie,→OCLC:

     […] that same mighty man of God, / That bloud-red billowes like a walled front / On either sidedisparted with his rod[…]

   • 1841,Ralph Waldo Emerson,Compensation:

     The world will be whole, and refuses to bedisparted.

2. (intransitive,obsolete) Todivide, divide up,distribute.
   • 1590,Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, inThe Faerie Queene. […], London:[…] [John Wolfe] forWilliam Ponsonbie,→OCLC:

     Them in twelue troupes their Captain diddispart / And round about in fittest steades did place[…]

dispart (pluraldisparts)

1. The difference between the thickness of the metal at themouth and at thebreech of a piece ofordnance.
   • 1854-1862,Charles Knight, "DISPART", inEnglish Cyclopaedia

     On account of thedispart, 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 themuzzle, or near thetrunnions, on the top of a piece of ordnance, to make the line of sight parallel to the axis of the bore.

dispart (third-person singular simple presentdisparts,present participledisparting,simple past and past participledisparted)

1. (transitive) To furnish with a dispart sight.
2. (transitive) To make allowance for the dispart in (agun), when taking aim.
   • 1583, Richard Lucars,Arte of Shooting:

     Every gunner, before he shoots, must trulydispart his piece.