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Webster 1913 Edition


Hair's breadth

Hair′breadthˊ

(-brĕdth)
,

Hair’s′ breadthˊ

(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.