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English → English (gcide) Definition: To fall to loggerheads Loggerhead \Log"ger*head`\, n. [Log + head.] 1. A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull. --Shak. Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. A spherical mass of iron, with a long handle, used to heat tar. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 5. (Zo["o]l.) An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike. [1913 Webster] To be at loggerheads, To fall to loggerheads, or To go to loggerheads , to quarrel; to be at strife. --L' Estrange. [1913 Webster]