Definition of Loggerheads

1. n. The knapweed.

Definition of Loggerheads

1. Noun. (plural of loggerhead) ¹

2. Noun. (plural only) Fisticuffs; fighting. ¹

3. Noun. (dialect) The knapweed. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Loggerheads

1. loggerhead [n] - See also: loggerhead

Medical Definition of Loggerheads

1. The knapweed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Loggerheads

logetronography
logfile
logfiles
loggable
loggat
loggats
logged
logged in
logged off
logged on
logger
loggerhead
loggerhead shrike
loggerhead turtle
loggerheaded
loggerheads (current term)
loggers
loggets
loggia
loggias
loggie
loggier
loggiest
logginess
logging
logging in
logging off
logging on
logging residues
loggings

Literary usage of Loggerheads

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1842)
"A SECOND SLAP AT THE loggerheads.* IN our December number, we told a few truths to the new sect of the loggerheads, or Home-Leaguers, — as they prefer to ..."

2. The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolph Erich Raspe, Thomas Seccombe, William Strang, J. B. Clark (1895)
"... and gallops into the kingdom of loggerheads —A battle, in which the Baron fights the ... loggerheads ..."

3. Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle (1898)
"Old Spanish and English Glasses, Iron loggerheads, and Wooden Toddy Sticks and foaming tankard was passed serenely from one to another, and replenished to ..."

4. Literary Anecdotes and Contemporary Reminiscences of Professor Porson and by Edmund Henry Barker (1852)
"loggerheads. A countryman, seeing a single person at a desk in a lawyer's office, asked what they sold in that shop. ..."

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