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单词 bow-draught
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bow-draughtn.

Etymology: < bow n.1 + draught n., from the phrase to draw a bow.
Obsolete.
A bowshot; the distance a bow will carry.
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the world > space > distance > [noun] > limit of distance or reach > to which a thing may be shot > specific
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c1400 Mandeville's Trav. viii. 96 Fro thens a Bowe draughte, toward the Southe.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur i. xv They come as nyghe kynge Bors as a bowe draughte.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vi. 58 A place..that weill twa bowdraucht was, Fra thai the vattir passit had.
1716 Let. in R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 133 The kirk being about two bow draughts at most out of the road.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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