ˈflight-shot
Also 6–7 flight-shoot.
[f. flight n.1 + shot n.]
1. The distance to which a flight-arrow is shot, a bow-shot.
| 1455 Paston Lett. No. 257 I. 351 And so he dede till he was a flyte shote or more from his place. 1538 Leland Itin. (1744) IV. 41 The passage into it at ful Se is a flite Shot over, as much as the Tamise is above the Bridge. 1615 G. Sandys Trav. 23 This hill lyeth South of the ruines..and about three flight-shots remoued. 1625 J. Taylor (Water P.) Thiefe Wks. (1630) ii. 119/2 Some two flight-shoot to th' Alehouse he did wag. a 1697 Aubrey Nat. Hist. Surrey (1719) I. 46 A Brook..riseth four Mile off in a Cellar; and a Flight-shot off drives a Mill. 1852 Hawthorne Blithedale Rom. xviii, Far as her flight-shot was, those arrows hit the mark. |
| fig. 1647 Ward Simp. Cobler 29 Such as..follow fashions..a flight shot or two off. 1704 Swift T. Tub vi. 86 Jack was already gone a flight-shot beyond his patience. |
2. A shot taken at wildfowl in flight.
| 1887 Rye Norfolk Broads 100 In the hope of getting a flight shot at duck or plover. |