bowshot's Usage Examples:

constructed of tuff and tiling, forty feet high, with 44 strong towers at bowshot intervals.

on the watch all round the camp at the distance of rather more than a bowshot from the tents.

distance [ourselves from] innovations regarding Torah and mitzvos as far as a bowshot away.

had contests as to how many bison it was possible to kill with just one bowshot.

Erpingham was ordered to warn the army that it was about to advance to within bowshot of the French.

The nomads used catapults that hurled stones the distance of a bowshot and a half.

front of them, withdrawing towards the count of Aumale; they were only a bowshot away when the troops revealed themselves.

The towers projected out from the walls and were within bowshot of each other, so that attackers trying to scale the walls were exposed.

can lead to death in a single strike; an unarmed blow to the neck or a bowshot to the eye can be fatal.

archer large degrees of freedom to vary the elevation and direction of his bowshot, but makes it difficult for attackers to harm the archer since there is.

the battle of Neville"s Cross and, when the archers were almost within bowshot, earnestly urged the King to send a body of cavalry to charge them in flank.

extended, deep and broad, That from the highway, where men rode, Was full a bowshot either side.

the exposed oxen, which the Goths had so thoughtlessly brought within bowshot distance from the walls.