Crossword clues for loggerhead
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Steamer \Steam"er\ (-[~e]r), n.
A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat.
A steam fire engine. See under Steam.
A road locomotive for use on common roads, as in agricultural operations.
A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, in cookery, and in various processes of manufacture.
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(Zo["o]l.) The steamer duck.
Steamer duck (Zo["o]l.), 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "stupid person, blockhead," perhaps from dialectal logger "heavy block of wood" + head (n.). Later it meant "a thick-headed iron tool" (1680s), a type of cannon shot, a type of turtle (1650s). Loggerheads "fighting, fisticuffs" is from 1670s, but the exact notion is uncertain, perhaps it suggests the heavy tools used as weapons. The phrase at loggerheads "in disagreement" is first recorded 1670s.\n\n[W]e three loggerheads be: a sentence frequently written under two heads, and the reader by repeating it makes himself the third.
[Grose, "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1785]
Wiktionary
n. 1 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. 2 (context nautical English) A post on a whaling boat used to secure the harpoon rope 3 the loggerhead turtle 4 the loggerhead shrike 5 (context obsolete English) A dolt or blockhead
WordNet
n. 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]
very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide ranging in warm open seas [syn: loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta]
Wikipedia
Loggerhead or Loggerheads may refer to:
A loggerhead is a type of tool consisting of a ball or bulb (for example, of iron) which would be heated up attached to a long handle. Used to heat or melt solids and solidified liquids, it was formerly a fairly common tool, for example loggerheads were used by shipbuilders to melt pitch.
Usage examples of "loggerhead".
An instant before, Stubb had swiftly caught two additional turns with it round the loggerhead, whence, by reason of its increased rapid circlings, a hempen blue smoke now jetted up and mingled with the steady fumes from his pipe.
It hissed along, whining as it smoked around the loggerhead, so that Ogg had to cool it with a pan of water.
And by the time you finished paddlingat Cape Sable or Snake Bight or the Ten Thousand Islandsyou would have also been among roseate spoonbills and white pelicans, eels and mangrove snakes, sawfish and redfish and crusty loggerhead turtles.
It was a world of ceralean blues, deep-velvet purples, inked greens, of wide brainstone coral cliffs and deep-bottomed troughs where the sea turned black in the chartless depths--a world of eel and octopus and squid, of the soldier crab and the loggerhead turtle, of jeweled angelfish, gliding manta rays, and great blue marlin.
They carried no fishing licenses, but had a boatload of illegal booty, including undersize and out-of-season lobster, 458 queen conchs and the remains of a rare loggerhead turtle.
Surely it had not weighed so heavily on his granddaddy, like the massive, unsheddable shell of a loggerhead.
In these islands a great loggerheaded duck or goose (Ana brachyptera), which sometimes weighs twenty-two pounds is very abundant.
An instant before, Stubb had swiftly caught two additional turns with it round the loggerhead, whence, by reason of its increased rapid circlings, a hempen blue smoke now jetted up and mingled with the steady fumes from his pipe.
The CDF and its offspring, the PSS, seemed to be at loggerheads as often as they cooperated with each other.
After two years of talk, the American and British staffs remained at loggerheads: the Americans adamant for an all-out smash into France in 1944, the British holding out for less risky operations in the Balkans and the eastern Mediterranean.
But hasten, for if Gast and Goryon are ever at loggerheads again, I'll not vouch for how much of the cantrev will be left!
At a moot-place near Cluggach I saw fifty men at loggerheads, shouting each other down, and often laying hands to their swords.
For a year he was in charge of all military intelligence in Algeria, but he was always at loggerheads with the brasshats.
McFay kept his thoughts off his face, concerned that Struan let himself be at loggerheads with this much older and more experienced man, and saddened that Norbert's reply had not been part of Struan's opening salvo, and disgusted that he had been kept unaware of the real reason for the meeting so had not had an opportunity to give some advice beforehand.
Given the tension with the PRH, setting him at loggerheads -- further at loggerheads, I should say -- with Her Majesty's Navy was a stupid thing for any officer to do.