Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HAIR'-BREADTH
HAIR'-BREADTH, n. [See Breadth.]
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 xx. It is used as an adjective; as, a hair-breadth escape. But in New England, it is generally hair's breadth.
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