| 单词 | out of gunshot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasout of gunshot a. The range of a gun or cannon; the distance to which a shot can be effectively thrown from a gun. Chiefly out of gunshot, within gunshot. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > [noun] > limit of distance or reach > to which a thing may be shot > specific bowshotc1300 bow-draughtc1400 buck-shot1447 flight-shot1455 gun-shot1532 bird bolt shot1570 cannon shot?1571 pistol shot1608 bolt's-shoot1677 rifle shot1803 gun-reach1825 rifle range1830 gun-range1852 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 366/1 Prouiding alwai that your selfes ye chief captaines..stand and loke vpon sure and safe a syde halfe out of al gunshot. 1540 T. Cranmer Prol. or Pref. in Bible (Great) sig. ✠v They sytte farre from the strokes of battayll, and farre out of gonneshoute, and therfore they be but seldome wounded. 1631 J. Mabbe tr. de Rojas Celestina (1894) xi. 191 Hee is out of gun-shot, that rings the bell to the battell. 1676 S. Sewall Diary 1 July (1973) I. 18 Mr. Hezekiah Willet slain by Naragansets, a little more than Gun-shot off from his house. 1696 London Gaz. No. 3219/2 On the 20th appeared..21 French Galleys.., who Anchored out of Gun Shot. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. v. 171 [They] perceived a light, which they chased, till they arrived within gun-shot. 1805 E. Berry in Ld. Nelson Disp. & Lett. (1846) VII. 117 (note) The Three-decker was within gun-shot of us at day-break. 1845 G. P. R. James Arrah Neil I. vi. 123 They were half across the meadows, about half a gun-shot from the alders. 1879 R. Jefferies Amateur Poacher iii. 51 They [mallards] were always out of gunshot. < as lemmas |
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