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hair-breadth

noun

The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance. --Seven hundred chosen men left-handed; every one could sling stones to a hair-breadth. Judges 20:16. It is used as an adjective; as a hair-breadth escape. But in New England, it is generally hair’s breadth.