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Muzzle vs Dispart - What's the difference?

muzzle | dispart |

In lang=en terms the difference between muzzle and dispart

is that muzzle is to bring the muzzle or mouth near while dispart is to make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between muzzle and dispart

is that muzzle is (obsolete) to fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle while dispart is (obsolete) to divide, divide up, distribute.

As nouns the difference between muzzle and dispart

is that muzzle is the protruding part of many animal's head which includes nose, mouth and jaws; snout 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 muzzle and dispart

is that muzzle is to bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting while dispart is to part, separate or dispart can be to furnish with a dispart sight.

muzzle

English

(wikipedia)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The protruding part of many animal's head which includes nose, mouth and jaws; snout
  • The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from as opposed to the breech.
  • A device used to prevent animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
  • (chiefly, Scotland) A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached; bridle
  • (obsolete, historical) An openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.

    • Derived terms

    * muzzle blast * muzzle brake * muzzle compensator * muzzle energy * muzzleloader * muzzleloading * muzzle velocity

    Verb

    (muzzl)
  • To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy xxv. 4
    • Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
  • (figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); gag, silence, censor.
  • * 1919 , :
    • Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled , masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.
  • (obsolete) To veil, mask, muffle.
  • (obsolete) To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.
    • (rfquotek, L'Estrange)
  • To bring the muzzle or mouth near.
  • * (rfdate) Sir R. L'Estrange
    • The bear muzzles and smells to him.

    Derived terms

    * muzzler

    References

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    dispart

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) dispartire and its source, (etyl) dispartire.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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
    • The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted .
  • (obsolete) To divide, divide up, distribute.
  • *, II.xi:
  • *:Them in twelue troupes their Captain did dispart / And round about in fittest steades did place [...].

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.
  • * Eng. Cyc.
    • 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.
  • 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

    (en verb)
  • To furnish with a dispart sight.
  • To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.
  • * Lucar
    • Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece.