Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hairbreadth

Hairbreadth (-bredth)

The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch.
Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not miss. — Judg. xx. 16

Also: Hair's breadth

Hairbreadth , adjective

Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape.