Stonecast

Origin

stone + cast

Full definition of stonecast

Noun

1. A stone's throw; a short distance.
• 1835, Michael Scott, Tom Cringle's logThey 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, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the FourBrown, heavy clouds were drifting across the sky, and it was hard to see more than a stonecast.