Usage examples (9)

• In the Hand The male's white crown patch, which gives the bird the nickname "baldpate," is impossible to miss, but it can be indistinct until November.
• The American wigeon for example, is sometimes called a baldpate.
• He was thin with a fringe of white hair around his ears and nothing on top but baldpate.
• And therefore some of the comedians seem to lay aside their bitterness in every jest that may reflect upon themselves; as Aristophanes, when he is merry upon a baldpate;...