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flight-shots

flight-shots is the plural of flight-shot.

Meaning of flight-shot

Noun

flight-shot (plural flight-shots)

  1. (Scotland, UK, dated, dialectal) The distance an arrow can generally fly after being shot (about a fifth of a mile).
    • half a flight-shot from the king's oak1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees...
    Synonyms:
    bowshot

Questions about flight-shots

What is flight-shots the plural of?
Flight-shots is the plural of flight-shot.

Words near flight-shots in the dictionary

  1. flight time
  2. flight times
  3. flight-mare
  4. flight-mares
  5. flight-shot
  6. flight-shots
  7. flight-specific
  8. flight-time equivalent dose
  9. flight-time equivalent doses
  10. flightcase
  11. flightcases

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