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stone-cast, stone's cast Now rare.
[cast n. 1 c.]
= stone's throw.
αa1300Cursor M. 15605 A stancast þan fra þaim he yode. a1400–50Wars Alex. 3614 Mare þan a stanecast..be-fore his kniȝtis all He standis vp. c1520Skelton Magnyf. 2174, I warant the, it is but a stone caste. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 106 It has a River a stone cast over. 1730T. Boston Mem. x. 280, I was told that one was a-dying little more than a stone-cast from the church. 1862Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 127 This house is within a stone-cast of the sea.
β1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 215 Pilers as hiȝ as a stones cast. 1485Yorks. Archæol. Soc., Record Ser. XLI. 3 The house of one William Slatter..is..a stonys cast fro the house of John Johnson. 1562Child Marriages 206 They mett William Plumpton a stones cast from the old house. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 29 His body..buried..where not a stones cast further, sleepes Tom Coriats bones. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §87 We got within a stone's cast of the rock. 1886T. Frost Remin. Country Journalist viii. (1888) 96 Within a stone's cast of the parish church. |