Flight"-shot` (?), n.

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 1913.

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