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English
Etymology
From stone + cast.
Noun
stonecast (usually uncountable, plural stonecasts)
- A short distance; a stone's throw.
1835, Michael Scott, Tom Cringle’s Log:They passed beneath where we sat, and, when about a stonecast beyond, they all jumped into a trench or pit, which I had not noticed before, about twenty feet long, by eight wide.
1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Strange Story of Jonathan Small”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett , →OCLC, page 246:Brown, heavy clouds were drifting across the sky, and it was hard to see more than a stonecast.
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