Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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HA'IR-BREADTH, noun [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 20:1.
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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