Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The distance that an arrow can be shot.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A shot from a bow.
  • noun The distance traversed by an arrow in its flight from a bow.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun archery The act of firing an arrow from a bow

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Examples

  • So the King bade them retire a bowshot from the horse; whereupon quoth its owner, “O King, see thou; I am about to mount my horse and charge upon thy host and scatter them right and left and split their hearts asunder.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • I don't think you should take a bowshot at a running deer.

    The running shot 2009

  • It is very possible a bowshot made that bloodtrail.

    Poucher shot deer from my stand. 2009

  • It is very possible a bowshot made that bloodtrail.

    Poucher shot deer from my stand. 2009

  • "Parallel with the street," wrote the topographer HW Timperley in the 1930s, "and a bowshot from it, the Kennet rolls its deep and clear chalk waters beneath the bowery margins of a score of pleasant gardens ..."

    In praise of … the river Kennet | Editorial 2011

  • I've been told Steve had no idea that buck was around until he showed up for the bowshot of a lifetime.

    South Dakota Saga Builds 2009

  • I don't think you should take a bowshot at a running deer.

    The running shot 2009

  • I've been told Steve had no idea that buck was around until he showed up for the bowshot of a lifetime.

    South Dakota Saga Builds 2009

  • Albright had planned to let the chief go once out of bowshot, but Pal Pi Qua refused to leave, and he realized the man could not swim.

    The Kurse of Kain « A Fly in Amber 2008

  • As described in v. 16, after Hagar had placed Ishmael under the bush, she sat down “at a distance, a bowshot [ki-mtahavei, literally, bowshots] away.”

    Hagar: Midrash and Aggadah. 2009

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