Level line mark for cannon, as point-blank, equal to 800 yards. It was also the term for the white mark in the centre of a butt, at which the arrow was aimed.
·noun Aim; shot; range. II. Blank ·adj Utterly confounded or discomfited. III. Blank ·adj Of a whi...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
To look blank; to appear disappointed or confounded. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
·adv In a point-blank manner. II. Point-blank ·noun The white spot on a target, at which an arrow o...
Direct on the object; "blank" being the old word for the mark on the practice-butt. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
That wherein no elevation is given to the gun, its axis being pointed for the object. ...
The distance to which a shot was reckoned to range straight, without appreciable drooping from the f...