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 anarrow from abow
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Examples
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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.”
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I don't think you should take a bowshot at a running deer.
The running shot 2009
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It is very possible a bowshot made that bloodtrail.
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It is very possible a bowshot made that bloodtrail.
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"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 ..."
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I've been told Steve had no idea that buck was around until he showed up for the bowshot of a lifetime.
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I don't think you should take a bowshot at a running deer.
The running shot 2009
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I've been told Steve had no idea that buck was around until he showed up for the bowshot of a lifetime.
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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.
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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.”
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