bowshot
(ˈbəʊʃɒt)
Forms: 3–5 bow(e)-schote, 6 -shote, bow-shotte, 7–8 bowshoot(e, 7– bowshot.
[f. bow n.1 + shot n.]
The distance to which an arrow can be shot from a bow.
| c 1300 K. Alis. 3491 A bowe-schote fro the brynke. c 1450 Lonelich Grail xiii. 316 More than fowre bowschote. c 1532 Ld. Berners Huon xcv. 308 Themperour..auaunsyd hym selfe a bowe shote before his companye. 1652 Sir C. Cotterell Cassandra i. v. 474 Within a Bow-shoot of their gates. 1734 tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. (1827) II. ii. 101 Within bowshot of it. 1814 Scott Wav. viii, About a bow-shot from the end of the village. |