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Definition of Eyeshot
1. Noun. The range of the eye. "They were soon out of view"
Definition of Eyeshot
1. n. Range, reach, or glance of the eye; view; sight; as, to be out of eyeshot.
Definition of Eyeshot
1. Noun. range of vision, a distance in which something is visible ¹
2. Noun. (photography) range ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Eyeshot
1. the range of vision [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eyeshot
Literary usage of Eyeshot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"EYE-SERVICE, eyeshot, EYESIGHT, EYESORE, EYE-SPOTTED, adj. ... protects the eye :
eye-service, a service only in operation when watched ; eyeshot, glance, ..."
2. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1917)
"... they attracted the attention of every bird within eyeshot, every reptile not
yet asleep, and set the surrounding rabbits curiously watching from ..."
3. The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905)
"Meanwhile, in the upper storeys, some resistance was still being offered to the
pillagers; for just as Dick came within eyeshot of the building, ..."
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