eyereach

noun

eyereach

noun

Etymology From eye + reach.

1

Dated The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot.

  • look, look! is not he blest That gets a seat in eye-reach of him? more, That comes in ear, or tongue-reach?1603 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Seianus His Fall, London: […] G[eorge] Elld, for Thomas Thorpe, published 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
  • I shoved for the middle of the river on a long downstream slant; and when I judged I was out of eye-reach, I laid on my oars, and looked back and see her go and smell around the wreck1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
1 more example
  • problems within eyereach of the school bus1946, Effie Geneva Bathurst, Delia Goetz, Elise Henrietta Martens, Education in Bolivia:

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