sight

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

1) A great many.--Brockett, Glossary. A sight of people, is a great multitude. A sight of things, a great many. The same expressions are used in Yorkshire, England, where they also say, a 'vast of folks,' which is hardly more elegant than our Western phrase, 'a heap of folks.' Sight is used in most of the Northern and Eastern, and heap in the Southern and Western States.


2) In North Carolina the distance that can be seen on a road is called a sight.

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