Definition of Hairsbreadth

1. Noun. A very small distance or space. "They lost the election by a whisker"


Definition of Hairsbreadth

1. Noun. a very short distance or a very small amount (as is the width of a hair) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hairsbreadth

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hairsbreadth

hairnet
hairnets
hairnetted
hairpiece
hairpieces
hairpin
hairpin bend
hairpin curve
hairpin loop
hairpin loops
hairpin turn
hairpins
hairpulling
hairraising
hairs
hairsbreadth (current term)
hairsbreadths
hairshirt
hairshirts
hairslide
hairsplitter
hairsplitters
hairsplitting
hairsplittings
hairspray
hairsprays
hairspring
hairsprings
hairst
hairsted

Literary usage of Hairsbreadth

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1889)
"If I miss by a hairsbreadth I will let you lunge at me without guarding. ... We instinctively aim the forefinger at the object to a hairsbreadth of ..."

2. Robert J. Burdette: His Message by Robert Jones Burdette, Clara Bradley Burdette (1922)
"But hairsbreadth by hairsbreadth, inch by inch, he was forced back to Appomattox. On the 9th of April, 1865, John Brown was dead; the slaves were free; ..."

3. Routledge's Every Boy's Annual by Edmund Routledge (1867)
"hairsbreadth by hairsbreadth almost, I worked on until I could see the first trout worth trying for. Of course I could see him, owing to the direction of ..."

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