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Webster 1913 Edition

Flight-shot

Flight′-shotˊ

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Noun.
The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, – about the fifth of a mile.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Within a
flight-shot
it inthe valley.
Evelyn.
Half a
flight-shot
from the king’s oak.
Sir W. Scott.

Webster 1828 Edition

Flight-shot

FLIGHT-SHOT

,
Noun.
The distance which an arrow flies.

Definition 2025

flight-shot

flight-shot

English

Noun

flight-shot ‎(plural flight-shots)

  1. (Britain, Scotland, dialect, dated) The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot; about a fifth of a mile.
    Half a flight-shot from the king's oak. — Sir Walter Scott.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Evelyn to this entry?)

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