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单词 within gunshot
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within 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.
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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.
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within (out of, past, beyond) (the) gunshot (of)
b. transferred and figurative. within (out of, past, beyond) (the) gunshot (of): within, beyond reach (of); within, out of the sphere of influence (of).
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the world > action or operation > safety > perfectly safe [phrase] > beyond danger of something
out of gunshot1556
lash1577
without the peril of1600
the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [phrase] > within reach or influence
within gunshot1556
1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lxv. 77 Marching toward the copweb, within goon shot.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxxv. 8) They..feare nothing, as though they were quite out of all gonneshot.
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 76 They might haue..lyu'd out of gunshot of misery.
1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus ii. 12 If he can..liue out of the gunshot of the lawe.
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 459 Set me beyond gun-shot of all corruptions.
1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress (ed. 2) 145 You are not yet out of the gun-shot of the Devil.
1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther To Rdr. sig. A3 Those who are come over to the Royal Party are consequently suppos'd to be out of Gunshot.
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