Breech vs Dispart - What's the difference?
breech | dispart |
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 157:
* 1736 , Alexander Pope, Bounce to Fop :
* 1749 , , Book III ch viii
*:"Oho!" says Thwackum, "you will not! then I will have it out of your br—h ;" that being the place to which he always applied for information on every doubtful occasion.
The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber.
(nautical) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
A breech birth.
With the hips coming out before the head.
Born, or having been born, breech.
(dated) To dress in breeches. (especially) To dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time.
* 1748-1832 , Jeremy Bentham, The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 10 :
* Macaulay
(dated) To beat or spank on the buttocks.
To fit or furnish with a breech.
To fasten with breeching.
(poetic, transitive, obsolete) To cover as if with breeches.
* Shakespeare
To part, separate.
*1590 , Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene , I.x:
*:that same mighty man of God, / That bloud-red billowes like a walled front / On either side disparted with his rod [...].
* Emerson
(obsolete) To divide, divide up, distribute.
*, II.xi:
*:Them in twelue troupes their Captain did dispart / And round about in fittest steades did place [...].
The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.
* Eng. Cyc.
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.
To furnish with a dispart sight.
To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.
* Lucar
In now|_|rare|lang=en terms the difference between breech and dispart
is that breech is while dispart is to part, separate.In lang=en terms the difference between breech and dispart
is that breech is to fasten with breeching while dispart is to make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.As nouns the difference between breech and dispart
is that breech is while dispart is the difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.As verbs the difference between breech and dispart
is that breech is (dated|transitive) to dress in breeches (especially) to dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time while dispart is to part, separate or dispart can be to furnish with a dispart sight.As an adverb breech
is with the hips coming out before the head.As an adjective breech
is born, or having been born, breech.breech
English
Noun
- And he made a woman for playing the whore, sit upon a great stone, on her bare breech twenty-foure houres, onely with corne and water, every three dayes, till nine dayes were past [...].
- When pamper'd Cupids'', bestly ''Veni's'', / And motly, squinting ''Harvequini's , / Shall lick no more their Lady's Br— , / But die of Looseness, Claps, or Itch; / Fair Thames from either ecchoing Shoare / Shall hear, and dread my manly Roar.
Adverb
(-)Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* breech birth * rod for one's own breechVerb
- it occurred before I was breeched , and I was breeched at three years and a quarter old;
- A great man anxious to know whether the blacksmith's youngest boy was breeched .
- to breech a gun
- Their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore.
See also
* breechesdispart
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dispartire and its source, (etyl) dispartire.Verb
(en verb)- The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted .
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
Verb
(en verb)- Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece.