Found 2 items, similar to Loggerhead.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: loggerhead
loggerhead
n 1: these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's
intelligence [syn:
dunce,
dunderhead,
numskull,
blockhead,
bonehead,
lunkhead,
hammerhead,
knucklehead,
muttonhead,
shithead,
fuckhead]
2: very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide ranging in warm open
seas [syn:
loggerhead turtle,
Caretta caretta]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Loggerhead
Loggerhead
\Log"ger*head`\, n. [Log + head.]
1. A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull. --Shak. Milton.
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2. A spherical mass of iron, with a long handle, used to heat
tar.
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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.
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4. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
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5. (Zo["o]l.) An American shrike (
Lanius Ludovicianus),
similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See
Shrike.
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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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