Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A mixture of silver and lead sometimes found in Cyprian excavations.

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Examples

  • He then emerged and began to knit his tin monopoly together again, after which he acquired some interests in the silver-lead mines of southern Spain.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • There is only one deeper vertical shaft in the world -- the Adalbent shaft of the silver-lead mines of

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 Various

  • _ -- Gold has been found in the Shiré Highlands, in the hills along the Nyasa-Zambezi waterparting, and in the mountainous region west of Lake Nyasa; silver (galena, silver-lead) in the hills of the

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

  • In Queensland we have the Mt. Isa Mining Company which is developing very, very big copper and silver-lead deposits, and those people buy right here in Canada their timber for their mines.

    Trade Relations Between Australia and Canada 1937

  • That is a British company which came with English, capital to Queensland some years ago and spent quite a lot of money developing that vast silver-lead mine, away in the interior, working under pretty hard conditions because it was costing a considerable amount of money to transport coke and other materials required for smelting from the coast to the mine.

    Trade Relations Between Australia and Canada 1937

  • "They's copper prepositions, silver-lead prepositions, and onct I had a oil preposition up in the Swift Current country."

    'Me--Smith' Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • I'd just sold a silver-lead prospect and was proclaimin 'my prosperity with soundin' brass and ticklin 'symbols.

    Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • In the course of my ramblings in the northern regions I came across quantities of silver-lead, which I smelted with the object of obtaining lead to beat out into plates.

    Adventures of Louis de Rougemont Fitzgerald, F Scott 1899

  • In the course of my ramblings in the northern regions I came across quantities of silver-lead, which I smelted with the object of obtaining lead to beat out into plates.

    The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont Louis de Rougemont 1884

  • For, truth to tell, I had made rather a fuss about that mine, talking about silver-lead in a very important way at school; and, as I recalled my words, I felt quite a shudder of horror as I thought of all the boys in my class coming and standing at the mouth of the mine, and bursting into a roar of laughter at this being the silver cavern in the earth.

    Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore George Manville Fenn 1870

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