Loggerhead /(?)/
Log·ger·head
Loggerhead
n.
- A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull.
- A spherical mass of iron, with a long handle, used to heat tar.
- An upright piece of round timber, in a whaleboat, over which a turn of the line is taken when it is running out too fast. (Naut.)
- A very large marine turtle (Thalassochelys caretta syn. Thalassochelys caouana), common in the warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil to Cape Cod; -- called also logger-headed turtle. (Zool.)
- An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike. (Zool.)
Phrases & Compounds
- To be at loggerheads
- to quarrel; to be at strife.