11. (Gun.) (a) The horizontal distance to which a shot or other
projectile is carried. (b) Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of
a shot or projectile. (c) A place where shooting, as with cannons or
rifles, is practiced.
12. In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of
townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart.
The meridians included in each great survey are numbered in order east
and west from the "principal meridian" of that survey, and the
townships in the range are numbered north and south from the "base
line," which runs east and west; as, township No. 6, N., range 7, W.,
from the fifth principal meridian.