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Flight-shot

Flight-shot \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.

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flight-shot

n. (context UK Scotland dialect dated English) The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shoot; bowshot; about a fifth of a mile.