eyereach

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English

Alternative forms

eye-reach

Etymology

From eye +‎ reach.

Noun

eyereach (uncountable)

(dated) The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot.
- 1603 (first performance), Ben Jonson, Seianus His Fall, London: G Elld, for Thomas Thorpe, published 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
  look, look! is not he blest
  That gets a seat in eye-reach of him? more,
  That comes in ear, or tongue-reach?
- 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) , London: Chatto & Windus, , →OCLC:
  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 wreck
- 1946, Effie Geneva Bathurst, Delia Goetz, Elise Henrietta Martens, Education in Bolivia:
  problems within eyereach of the school bus

References

“eyereach”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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