stonesthrow

See also: stone's throw

English

Etymology

From stone +‎ -s- +‎ throw.

Noun

stonesthrow (plural stonesthrows)

1. Alternative form of stone's throw.
   • 1829, Washington Irving, A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada. From the MSS. of Fray Antonio Agapida., volume II, London: John Murray, […], page 74:

     He ordered his outposts, therefore, to be advanced within a stonesthrow of the breach, but exhorted the soldiers to maintain the utmost vigilance.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16: Eumaeus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 569:

     His (Stephen’s) mind was not exactly what you would call wandering but a bit unsteady and on his expressed desire for some beverage to drink Mr Bloom, in view of the hour it was and there being no pumps of Vartry water available for their ablutions, let alone drinking purposes, hit upon an expedient by suggesting, off the reel, the propriety of the cabman’s shelter, as it was called, hardly a stonesthrow away near Butt Bridge where they might hit upon some drinkables in the shape of a milk and soda or a mineral.

   • 1991, Malcolm Macdonald, The Captain’s Wives, Coronet Books, published 1992, →ISBN, page 265:

     It’s only a stonesthrow to Chicago.