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Hair-breadth


HA'IR-BREADTH, noun [See Breadth.] The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance.

--Seven hundred chosen men left-handed; every one could

sling stones to a hair-breadth Judges 20:1.

It is used as an adjective; as a hair-breadth escape. But in New England, it is generally hair's breadth.