[wutwit] (adv) EN: narrowly ; barely ; nearly ; almost ; very near at hand ; by inches ; by an hair's breath ; within an ace of ; in time ; just about ; at the eleventh hourFR: de justesse ; sur le fil
/mhw>. The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch. [ Also spelled hairsbreadth. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not miss. Judg. xx. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]