Noun

(en noun)

That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, usually of the male, or upon the chin, or upon both.

* 2003 , Hanne Blank, Unruly Appetites: Erotic Stories

He licked my ass cheek, then rubbed his face across my butt. I winced as his two-day whiskers rubbed the welts but said nothing. Then he growled and I felt his teeth digging into me, crushing, tearing, sinking deep and tight into my battered, stinging ass at the same time that he shoved three fingers deep into my cunt.''

A hair of the beard.

One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal.

(colloquial) The (very small) distance between two things

* It missed falling on your foot by a whisker .

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, year=2011 , date=May 14 , author=Peter Scrivener , title=Sunderland 1 - 3 Wolverhampton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Boosted by their reward, Wolves continued to push forward and Jamie O'Hara came within a whisker of doubling the lead, smashing a 25-yard effort on to the bar. }}

(nautical) spreaders from the bows to spread the bowsprit shrouds.

(statistics) a graphic element that shows the maxima and minima in a box plot

One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.

(label) A small that forms on metal.