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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Hair-breadth

Hâir'-brĕadth, n.

noun

(-brĕdh), n. [See BREADTH.] The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the 48th part of an inch.

Every one could sling stones at a hair-breadth and not miss. Judg. xx. 16.

Hāir'-brĕadth, a.

adjective

a. Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hair-breadth escape.