LOGGERHEAD

loggerhead, loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta

(noun) very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas

dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, dumbass, fuckhead

(noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone’s intelligence

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

loggerhead (plural loggerheads)

(obsolete) A stupid person; a blockhead, a dolt.

Synonym: Thesaurus:idiot

A metal tool consisting of a long rod with a bulbous end that is made hot in a fire, then plunged into some material (such as pitch or a liquid) to melt or heat it.

(nautical) A post on a whaling boat used to secure the harpoon rope.

(botany, Midlands, dialectal, often, in the plural) A thistle-like flowering plant of the genus Centaurea, particularly the common knapweed (Centaurea nigra).

(zoology) Used as the name of various animals with large heads.

The loggerhead duck or Falkland steamer duck (Tachyeres brachypterus; formerly Tachyeres cinereus), a species of steamer duck endemic to the Falkland Islands.

Synonym: logger duck

The loggerhead kingbird (Tyrannus caudifasciatus), a bird endemic to the Caribbean and West Indies.

The rufous-tailed flycatcher (Myiarchus validus), a bird endemic to Jamaica.

The loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus), a bird endemic to North America.

The loggerhead musk turtle (Sternotherus minor), a large-headed turtle endemic to the United States.

The loggerhead sea turtle or loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta), an oceanic turtle found throughout the world.

Source: Wiktionary

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Log"ger*head`, n. Etym: [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.)

Definition: 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. (Zoöl.)

Definition: 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. (Zoöl.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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