different between dispark vs dispart

English

Etymology

dis- +? park

Verb

dispark (third-person singular simple present disparks, present participle disparking, simple past and past participle disparked)

1. (archaic, transitive) To open (a private enclosure, park, etc.) to the public.

References

• Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 131

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Etymology 1

From Italian dispartire and its source, Latin dispartire.

Verb

dispart (third-person singular simple present disparts, present participle disparting, simple past and past participle disparted)

1. (transitive, now rare) To part, separate.
   • 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation

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

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To divide, divide up, distribute.

Etymology 2

Noun

dispart (plural disparts)

1. The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.
   • 1854-1862, Charles Knight, "DISPART", in English Cyclopaedia

     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.

Verb

dispart (third-person singular simple present disparts, present participle disparting, simple 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.
   • 1583, Richard Lucars, Arte of Shooting

     Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece.