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hair's-breadth, hair's breadth|ˈhɛəzbrɛdθ|
The breadth of a hair; = hairbreadth.
1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. v. v. (1886) 80 Limits..beyond the which they cannot passe one haires breadth. 1638Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. III.) 31 There is not a haires breadth of difference betweene them. 1755Smollett Quix. (1803) I. 101, I am within a hair's breadth of doubting. 1856Dove Logic Chr. Faith Introd. § 3. 6 Our faith in the fact is not shaken a hair's-breadth.
b. (See quots.)
1706Phillips, Hair's-breadth, a Measure accounted among the Jews the 48th part of an inch. 1832Lindley Introd. Bot. 400 A hair's breadth..the twelfth part of a line.
c. attrib. or as adj.: Extremely narrow or close = hairbreadth 2.
1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. (1844) I. x. 72 Our chief conversation was..hairs breadth escapes. 1850Robertson Serm. Ser. ii. iv. (1864) 52 To draw some subtle hair'sbreadth distinction. 1868Milman St. Paul's 120. |