hair's-breadth : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: hair's-breadth	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for hair's-breadth
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hair's-breadth n a very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker" Synonym(s): hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth, hair, whisker
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