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Webster 1913 Edition
Loggerhead
Log′ger-headˊ
,Noun.
[
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.
(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
. 5.
(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.
L’ Estrange.
Webster 1828 Edition
Loggerhead
LOG'GERHEAD
,Noun.
1.
A blockhead; a dunce; a dolt; a thick-skull.2.
A spherical mass of iron, with a long handle; used to heat tar.To fall to loggerheads,
To go to loggerheads, to come to blows; to fall to fighting without weapons.
Definition 2024
loggerhead
loggerhead
English
Noun
loggerhead (plural loggerheads)
- A tool consisting of a rod with a bulbous end, used once made hot in a fire for the purpose of heating liquids that it is plunged into.
- (nautical) A post on a whaling boat used to secure the harpoon rope.
- The loggerhead turtle.
- The loggerhead shrike.
- (obsolete) A dolt or blockhead.
- 1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, IV. iii. 202:
- Ah, you whoreson loggerhead, you were born to do me shame!
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
- 1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, IV. iii. 202: