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noun

Loggerhead n.

A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull.

A spherical mass of iron, with a long handle, used to heat tar.

(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.

(Zool.) 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.

To be at loggerheads, To fall to loggerheads, or To go to loggerheads, to quarrel; to be at strife.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Loggerhead" Quotes from Famous Books

... all their might, in order to avoid the flukes of the wounded monster of the deep, as it plunged down headlong into the sea, taking the line out perpendicularly like lightning. This was a moment of great danger. The friction of the line, as it passed the loggerhead, was so great that Parr had to keep constantly pouring water on it, to prevent its catching fire. A hitch in the line at that time, as it flew out of the tub, or any accidental entanglement, would have dragged the boat and crew right down. Many such fatal accidents occur to whalers, ...

— The World of Ice • R.M. Ballantyne

... singular belief in the peculiarities of that State for growing long citizens—the tallest man always being elected governor. Perhaps I should have added that the Schiedam was only tolerable, the brandy bad; and that Buck, having forgotten his tobacco, was compelled to resort to very bad Dutch loggerhead, with which he kept the ...

— The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth • Timothy Templeton

... Hooded Warbler Golden-winged Warbler Connecticut Warbler Mourning Warbler Canadian Warbler Blue-winged Warbler Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Ipswich Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Olive-sided Flycatcher Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Loggerhead Shrike Purple Martin Cow Bird Pine Warbler Kentucky Warbler Nashville Warbler Parula Warbler Cape May Warbler Yellow Warbler Black-poll ...

— New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 - Report of the New York State Commission • DeLancey M. Ellis

... first plunge of the ship, a sea slapped up against her weather-bow, and sent a column of water through the port, that drove half its crew into the lee-scuppers. In the midst of this waterspout, the gun exploded, the loggerhead having been applied an instant before, giving a sort of chaotic wildness to the scene in-board. This satisfied the party below; though that on the forecastle fared better. The last fired their gun several times, and always without success. This failure proceeded from a cause that ...

— The Two Admirals • J. Fenimore Cooper

Words linked to "Loggerhead" : stupe, pillock, shithead, Caretta caretta, hammerhead, dunce, dolt, fuckhead, genus Caretta, bonehead, blockhead, loggerhead shrike, poor fish, marine turtle, lunkhead, pudding head, muttonhead, Caretta, dunderhead, sea turtle