Definition of Loggirhead
Log"ger*head` (?), n. [Log +
head.] 1. A blockhead; a dunce; a
numskull. Shak. Milton.
2. A spherical mass of iron, with a long
handle, used to heat tar.
3. (Naut.) 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. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
4. (Zoöl.) A very large marine
turtle (Thalassochelys caretta, or caouana), common in the
warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil to Cape Cod; --
called also logger-headed turtle.
5. (Zoöl.) An American shrike
(Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but
smaller. See Shrike.
To be at loggerheads, To fall to
loggerheads, or To go to loggerheads,
to quarrel; to be at strife. L' Estrange.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
LOGGERHEAD. A blockhead, or stupid fellow. We three
loggerheads be: a sentence frequently written under two
heads, and the reader by repeating it makes himself the
third. A loggerhead is also a double-headed, or bar shot
of iron. To go to loggerheads; to fall to fighting.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
- (nautical) A post on a whaling boat used to secure the harpoon rope
- the loggerhead turtle
- the Loggerhead Shrike
- (informal) A dolt or blockhead
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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