Found 2 items, similar to hairsbreadth.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: hairsbreadth
hairsbreadth
n : a very small distance or space;
“they escaped by a
hair's-breadth”;
“they lost the election by a whisker”
[syn:
hair's-breadth,
hair,
whisker]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: hairsbreadth
Hairbreadth
\Hair"breadth`\ (-br[e^]dth), Hair's breadth
\Hair's" breadth`\ (h[^a]rz"-).
The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance;
sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch.
[Also spelled
hairsbreadth.]
[1913 Webster]
Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not
miss. --Judg. xx.
16.
[1913 Webster]