flight shooting (flitsho"ting)

The sport or practice of shooting birds as they fly in flocks, or to and from their feeding-grounds. flight-shot (flit's hot), n. The distance which an arrow flies; bow-shot. The Temple had priuiledge of Sanctuarie, which Alexander extended to a furlong, Mithridates to a flight -shot, Antonius added part of the Citie. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 330. Aboute a flite - shot from the towne is the Cardinal's house. Evelyn , Diary, Sept. 14, 1664. Jack was already gone a flight - shot beyond his patience. Swift, Tale of a Tub, vi.