whisker, n.
(whiskers)
(whiskers)
a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat
<noun.animal>
sensory hair vibrissa whisker
a very small distance or space
<noun.quantity>
hair hair's-breadth hairsbreadth whisker
sample sentences
"they escaped by a hair's-breadth""they lost the election by a whisker"
semantic pointers
hypernym