'Loggerhead' definitions:
Definition of 'Loggerhead'
From: GCIDE
- 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. (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. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Zool.) 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]
Definition of 'loggerhead'
From: GCIDE
- Steamer \Steam"er\ (-[~e]r), n.
- 1. A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A steam fire engine. See under Steam. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A road locomotive for use on common roads, as in agricultural operations. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, in cookery, and in various processes of manufacture. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Zool.) The steamer duck. [1913 Webster]
- Steamer duck (Zool.), a sea duck (Tachyeres cinereus), native of Patagonia and Terra del Fuego, which swims and dives with great agility, but which, when full grown, is incapable of flight, owing to its very small wings. Called also loggerhead, race horse, and side-wheel duck. [1913 Webster]