Flight-shot

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]
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           Within a flight-shot it inthe valley.    --Evelyn.


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           Half a flight-shot from the king's oak.  --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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