Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Flight-shot \Flight"-shot`\, n.
   The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot;
   bowshot, -- about the fifth of a mile. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

         Within a flight-shot it inthe valley.    --Evelyn.

         Half a flight-shot from the king's oak.  --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.