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Loggerhead
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What's The Definition Of Loggerhead?
[n] very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide ranging in warm open seas
[n] these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence Synonyms | Synonyms for Loggerhead: blockhead | bonehead | Caretta caretta | dunce | dunderhead | fuckhead | hammerhead | knucklehead | loggerhead turtle | lunkhead | muttonhead | numskull | shithead Related Terms | Find terms related to Loggerhead: See Also | Caretta | genus Caretta | marine turtle | sea turtle | simple | simpleton Loggerhead In Webster's Dictionary \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. (Zo["o]l.) 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. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
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