hair's breadth

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hair's breadth - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.]
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           Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not
           miss.                                    --Judg. xx.
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