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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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.

Noun.

The distance which an arrow flies.

flight-shot ‎(plural flight-shots)

(Britain, Scotland, dialect, dated) The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot; about a fifth of a mile.

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

(Can we find and add a quotation of Evelyn to this entry?)