[hwis-ker, wis-] 
| 1. | whiskers, a beard. |
| 2. | Usually, whiskers. side whiskers. |
| 3. | a single hair of the beard. |
| 4. | Archaic. a mustache. |
| 5. | one of the long, stiff, bristly hairs growing about the mouth of certain animals, as the cat or rat; vibrissa. |
| 6. | Also called whisker boom, whisker pole. Nautical. any spar for extending the clew or clews of a sail so that it can catch more wind. |
| 7. | Radio, Electronics. cat whisker. |
| 8. | Crystallography. a thin filament of a crystal, usually several millimeters long and one to two microns in diameter, having unusually great strength. |
| 9. | by a whisker, by the narrowest margin: She won the race by a whisker. |
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