Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Hairbreadth"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hairbreadth \Hair"breadth`\, Hair'sbreadth \Hair's"breadth`\
The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance;
sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch.
Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not
miss. --Judg. xx. 16
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hairbreadth \Hair"breadth`\, a.
Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth
escape.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
hairbreadth
n : a very small distance or space; "they escaped by a
hair's-breadth"; "they lost by a hair" [syn: {hair's-breadth},
{hair}]
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