LOGGERHEADS

Noun

loggerheads

plural of loggerhead

Fisticuffs; fighting.

(dialect) The knapweed.

Source: Wiktionary

Log"ger*heads`, n. (Bot.)

Definition: The knapweed.

LOGGERHEAD

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