stone's throw

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stone's throw

(stōnz)
n.
A short distance.
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stone's throw

n
a short distance. Also called: stonecast
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stone's′ throw′


n.
a short distance.
[1575–85]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.stone's throw - a short distance; "it's only a step to the drugstore"
small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity - an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude
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Everyone got up and began watching the movements of our troops below, as plainly visible as if but a stone's throw away, and the movements of the approaching enemy farther off.
The Vicar of Surle, a tiny hamlet by the sea, was to be seen every evening in the public house a stone's throw from his vicarage; and the churchwardens had been to Mr.
At a distance of a quarter-mile before him, but apparently at a stone's throw, rose from its fringe of pines the gigantic face of rock, towering to so great a height above him that it made him giddy to look up to where its edge cut a sharp, rugged line against the sky.
For twenty long minutes the blood-curdling cries continued, until they seemed but a stone's throw from the palisade.
It was in a back-street off an alley, and although within a stone's throw of Lothbury its immediate surroundings were not exhilarating.
It was a moment of anxiety, for the Ghost was rushing directly upon the beach, a stone's throw distant.
A butcher hard by in the village, and the parsonage-house within a stone's throw. To my fancy, a thousand times prettier than Barton Park, where they are forced to send three miles for their meat, and have not a neighbour nearer than your mother.
Now, my bachelor gatehouse is a few yards from here, and the heater is on the fire, and the wine and glasses are on the table, and it is not a stone's throw from Minor Canon Corner.
They are almost within a stone's throw of Martin, who is pressing the unlucky chase hard, when Tom catches sight of them, and sings out, "Louts, 'ware louts, your side!
On one occasion I saw two of these monsters, probably male and female, slowly swimming one after the other, within less than a stone's throw of the shore, over which the beech-tree extended its branches.
It seemed incredible that such a thing could be, almost within a stone's throw of the spot where but a brief two centuries before had stood the greatest city of the world.
A Stone's Throw crafts an Ellie Stone mystery set in 1962, when a suspicious fire takes out a barn on a formerly notable estate, adding to several that have mysteriously affected the remote, abandoned farm.
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