dispart

Plural: disparts

Verb

Verb Forms: disparted, disparting, disparts

• To separate or divide into distinct parts.
• To part, separate.
• To divide, divide up, distribute.
• To furnish with a dispart sight.
• To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.

Noun

• The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.
• 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

• The unusual layout of the Scrabble board forced players to DISPART their long-word strategies.

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