单词 | hair-brede |
释义 | hair-bredehair-breedn. northern dialect. = hairbreadth n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > [noun] > a short distance > a very short distance footmealOE hair-brede14.. hairbreadth1561 hair's breadth1584 micromillimetre1987 14.. Camb. MS. Ff. ii. lf. 38 in Retrosp. Rev. Nov. (1853) 103 Oon heere-brede owt of this peyne They have no power to lyfte me. 1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes xliii. sig. Bvii I am streight at feedyng within a heare breade, Where I fed before. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 77 ‘She's dying by hair-breeds’, by very slow degrees. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < n.14.. |
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