dispart (disparts, present participle disparting; past and past participle disparted)

1. (transitive, now rare) To part, separate.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938 ↗, book I, canto X:

     {...}} that same mighty man of God, / That bloud-red billowes like a walled front / On either side disparted with his rod {{...}

   • The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted.

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To divide, divide up, distribute.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938 ↗, book II, canto XI:

     Them in twelue troupes their Captain did dispart / And round about in fittest steades did place {{...}

dispart (plural disparts)

1. 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. 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.

dispart (disparts, present participle disparting; past and past participle disparted)

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.