Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a silver head, as a cane.
- Same as
silver-haired .
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Examples
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July 30th, 2009 at 5: 29 am the silver-headed man, the fat man, a dark man, an old man, the younger man ... very confusing.
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A silver-headed man in a dark suit opens a patio door after picking the lock.
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The top stair creaks as the silver-headed man steps onto the landing.
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Who knows, maybe sixty or seventy, the silver-headed man said.
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That will be that, the silver-headed man said as he took another bite of egg sandwich.
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He walks with an elegant silver-headed stick, needed because of persistently troubling knees, but his recent, radical heart-valve repairs were so successful that he had no difficulty tossing a couple of large logs on the fire.
Richard Hamilton, 88 and Going Strong Paul Levy 2010
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He walks with an elegant silver-headed stick, needed because of persistently troubling knees, but his recent, radical heart-valve repairs were so successful that he had no difficulty tossing a couple of large logs on the fire.
Richard Hamilton, 88 and Going Strong Paul Levy 2010
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Frank befriended Ted and myself early on in our introduction to Irish fandom, and I will absolutely never forget the entrance he made on Friday night at P-Con 5, clad in a tux and bearing a silver-headed cane.
rocky day xnamkrad 2008
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He walks with an elegant silver-headed stick, needed because of persistently troubling knees, but his recent, radical heart-valve repairs were so successful that he had no difficulty tossing a couple of large logs on the fire.
Richard Hamilton, 88 and Going Strong Paul Levy 2010
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He walks with an elegant silver-headed stick, needed because of persistently troubling knees, but his recent, radical heart-valve repairs were so successful that he had no difficulty tossing a couple of large logs on the fire.
Richard Hamilton, 88 and Going Strong Paul Levy 2010
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