What does paper-thick mean?

paper-thick

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.37 in modern English

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"To make a key of a chamber-door, which to your sight hath its wards and rose-pipe but paper-thick, and yet at pleasure, in a minute of an hour, shall become a perfect pistol, capable to shoot through a breast-plate commonly of carbine-proof, with prime, powder, and firelock, undiscoverable to a stranger's hand."
"Another woman was selling very sharp knives. Using one hand she sliced through a bit of tomato that already seemed paper-thick."

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