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Definition of Hairbreadth
1. a. Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape.
Definition of Hairbreadth
1. Noun. the width of a hair, a very short distance or a very small amount ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hairbreadth
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hairbreadth
Literary usage of Hairbreadth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... Admitted to the Indian Brotherhood— Sharing hairbreadth Escapes — The Gaming
Table — The Trader's Grip on the Red Man's Throat — Barefaced Swindling— An ..."
2. The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas: A Narrative of the Discovery of by Francis Leopold M'Clintock (1860)
"... and push abend—Arctic hairbreadth escapes—Nearly caught ID the pack—Shooting
little ;>iiU>—-The Arctic Highlanders—Cape York—Crimson snow—Struggling to ..."
3. London by Charles Knight (1843)
"Then began a series of hairbreadth escapes, through which it is wonderful the
work should have reached its present home. The last Abbot of Waltham saved it ..."
4. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Richard Linthicum, Trumbull White (1906)
"hairbreadth Escapes from the Hotels Whose Walls Crumbled— Frantic Mothers Seek
Children from Whom They Were Torn by the Quake—Reckless Use of Firearms by ..."
5. The cruise of the Midge by Michael Scott (1842)
"A hairbreadth ESCAPE. I MUST either have been weaker, or the opiate stronger han
the doctor expected, for it was near midnight before I ,woke. ..."
6. Bench and Bar in California: History, Anecdotes, Reminiscences by Oscar Tully Shuck (1889)
"Stephen J. Field—A Wonderful Life Story—Vicissitudes and Trials
and "hairbreadth 'Scape*"—Collisions with the Bench—Expulsion from the Bar, ..."
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