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English Dictionary: hairbreadth by the DICT Development Group
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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.
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