whisker

Noun

• a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat

• a very small distance or space
  • they escaped by a hair's-breadth
    
  • they lost the election by a whisker
    

Verb

• furnish with whiskers
  • a whiskered jersey
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  vibrissa , sensory hair , hair's-breadth , hairsbreadth , hair , bewhisker