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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典
 hairsbreadth
 間不容髮的寬度
From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 Hair·breadth Hair's breadth. 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.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0
 hair's-breadth
      n : a very small distance or space; "they escaped by a
          hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker"
          [syn: hairsbreadth, hair, whisker]
From: WordNet (r) 2.0
 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]