bowshot
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of bowshot
Example Sentences
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The Springfield Republican, a Massachusetts newspaper, contrasted Rainey’s appearance with “the days when men of Mr. Rainey’s race were sold under the hammer within bowshot of the Capitol.”
From Seattle Times
Back at Shiloh Road, the cemetery is just a bowshot from Shiloh School, once a one-room classroom where recently freed slaves learned.
From Washington Times
Some cypresses beyond the time-worn breach Appeared to skirt the horizon, yet they stood Within a bowshot.
From Project Gutenberg
By its light he and those behind him could make out a group of half a dozen figures a score of yards away, while in support of these there appeared a bowshot off, and still in the open ground, a clump of, it might be, a hundred men.
From Project Gutenberg
If he went straight through it, he would emerge almost within bowshot of the hacienda.
From Project Gutenberg
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