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breath noun A moment of time.
1917 Kephart Word-list 408 = a moment. “I’ll be there in just a breath.” 1939 Hall Coll (Proctor NC) That feist, he was just a-yelping like he was looking at it [=a bear]. I says to Van, “He’s gonna catch it directly.” About that time just in a breath or two, why that feist went to hollering just like he was a-dying. c1960 Wilson Coll We expected to fall down at every breath as we run away from the vicious hog.