Definition of "earshot"

Loola glances about her to make sure that nobody is within earshot, then speaks at last almost in a whisper.

1948 August, Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers

Ananda hit the target, an iron drum, from a distance of two earshots. Devadatta, from a distance of four earshots, Sundarananda from a distance of six earshots, and Dandapani [found his target] from one league.

2013, Buton Richen Drup, Buton's History of Buddhism in India and Its Spread to Tibet