eyeshot

English edit

eye +‎ shot, on the pattern of earshot.

eyeshot (usually uncountable, plural eyeshots)

Range of vision, a distance in which something is visible.
- 1991 July 26, Bonnie McGrath, “Ed Steiger Gives Great Party”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:
  He likes his mother to sit off by the side, though--out of eyeshot of the door. "
- 2004 July 23, Grant Pick, “Antenna Invasion”, in Chicago Reader‎^[2]:
  "We were alarmed," says Aimee Sordelli, who lives within eyeshot of the school's chimney. "
- 2007 May 27, William Yardley, “Victim of Climate Change, a Town Seeks a Lifeline”, in New York Times‎^[3]:
  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.
(photography) Range.
(archaic) A brief glance.
- 1905, The Monthly Review, volume 19, page 101:
  The woman smothered his instant fear with an eyeshot of horror.

range of vision