[ˈwɪskə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a long projecting hair or bristle growing from the face or snout of many mammals

- a very small amount
(e.g: they won the election by a whisker)

- a single crystal of a material in the form of a filament with no dislocations


Phrases:
- have whiskers
- within a whisker of

Origin:
late Middle English (originally denoting a bundle of feathers, twigs, etc., used for whisking): from the verb whisk + -er