Obs. [f. BOW sb.1 + DRAUGHT, from the phrase to draw a bow.] A bowshot; the distance a bow will carry.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, VI. 58. A place … that weill twa bow-draucht was, Fra thai the vattir passit had.
c. 1400. Maundev., viii. 96. Fro thens a Bowe draughte, toward the Southe.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, I. xv. They come as nyghe kynge Bors as a bowe draughte.
1716. Lett., in Wodrow, Corr. (1843), II. 133. The kirk being about two bow draughts at most out of the road.
