hairsbreadth
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Noun (1)
- a very small distance or space“they escaped by a hair's breadth”“they lost the election by a whisker”Synonyms: hair's breadthhairwhiskerType of small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
“hairsbreadth” is listed under Hair's breadth.
Hair′breadth′ (-brĕdth), Hair's′ breadth′ (hârz′-).
The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch. [Also spelled hairsbreadth.]
Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not miss.— Judg. xx. 16.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54