whisker
noun
[ ˈwɪskə ]
• a long projecting hair or bristle growing from the face or snout of many mammals.
• a very small amount.
• "they won the election by a whisker"
• a single crystal of a material in the form of a filament with no dislocations.
Origin:
late Middle English (originally denoting a bundle of feathers, twigs, etc., used for whisking): from the verb whisk + -er1.
