"Dispart" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... also to know the "perfect dispart" of their pieces: that is they were to make a calculation which would enable them in sighting, to bring "the hollow of the peece," not the outer muzzle rim, "right against the marke." In the case of a breech-loader this could not be done by art, with any great exactness, "but any reasonable man (when ...
— On the Spanish Main - Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. • John Masefield |
