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The hair on a man's cheeks and chin.
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A single hair of a beard or mustache.
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One of the long stiff tactile bristles or hairs that grow near the mouth and elsewhere on the head of most mammals; a vibrissa.
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Informal A narrow margin; a hairsbreadth: The candidate lost the election by a whisker.
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Nautical One of two spars or booms projecting from the side of a bowsprit for spreading the jib or flying-jib guys.
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