Bowshot

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The distance that an arrow can be shot.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of firing an arrow from a bow
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A shot from a bow.
  • n. The distance traversed by an arrow in its flight from a bow.
  • Word Usage
    "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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