eyeshot

plural eyeshots

1. idiomaticuncountableusuallyA range of vision, a distance in which something is visible.

   He likes his mother to sit off by the side, though--out of eyeshot of the door. "

   1991 July 26, Bonnie McGrath, “Ed Steiger Gives Great Party”, in Chicago Reader

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   "We were alarmed," says Aimee Sordelli, who lives within eyeshot of the school's chimney. "

   2004 July 23, Grant Pick, “Antenna Invasion”, in Chicago Reader

   Human waste, collected in “honey buckets” that many residents use for toilets, is often dumped within eyeshot in a village where no point is more than a five-minute walk from any other.

   2007 May 27, William Yardley, “Victim of Climate Change, a Town Seeks a Lifeline”, in New York Times

2. uncountableusuallyartsA range.
3. archaicuncountableusuallyA brief glance.

   The woman smothered his instant fear with an eyeshot of horror.

   1905, The Monthly Review, volume 19, page 101