eyereach

English

Alternative forms

• eye-reach

Etymology

From eye +‎ reach.

Noun

eyereach (uncountable)

1. (dated) The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot.
   • 1603 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Seianus His Fall, London: […] G[eorge] 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.