Now rare. [CAST sb. 1 c.] = STONE’S THROW.
α. a. 1300. Cursor M., 15605. A stancast þan fra þaim he yode.
a. 1400–50. Wars Alex., 3614. Mare þan a stanecast … be-fore his kniȝtis all He standis vp.
c. 1520. Skelton, Magnyf., 2174. I warant the, it is but a stone caste.
1634. Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 106. It has a River a stone cast over.
1730. T. Boston, Mem., x. 280. I was told that one was a-dying little more than a stone-cast from the church.
1862. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., III. 127. This house is within a stone-cast of the sea.
β. 1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), I. 275. Pilers as hiȝ as a stones cast.
1485. Yorks. Archæol. Soc., Record Ser. XLI. 3. The house of one William Slatter … is … a stonys cast fro the house of John Johnson.
1562. Child-Marriages, 206. They mett William Plumpton a stones cast from the old house.
1634. Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 29. His body … buried … where not a stones cast further, sleepes Tom Coriats bones.
1793. Smeaton, Edystone L., § 87. We got within a stone’s cast of the rock.
1886. T. Frost, Remin. Country Journalist, viii. (1888), 96. Within a stone’s cast of the parish church.
