The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
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.