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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Flight-shot

· Flight·-shot · IPA
01 n. The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, -- about the fifth of a mile.
  1. 1.
    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.