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Dispart (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disparted; p. pr. & vb. n. Disparting.] [Pref. dis- + part: cf. OF. despartir.] To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers. [Archaic]
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Them in twelve troops their captain did dispart.
Spenser.
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The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted.
Emerson.
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Dispart, n. 1. (Gun.) The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.
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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.
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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.
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