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Definition of Loggerhead
1. Noun. A stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence.
Generic synonyms: Dolt, Dullard, Pillock, Poor Fish, Pudden-head, Pudding Head, Stupe, Stupid, Stupid Person
2. Noun. Very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas.
Generic synonyms: Marine Turtle, Sea Turtle
Group relationships: Caretta, Genus Caretta
Definition of Loggerhead
1. n. A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull.
Definition of Loggerhead
1. Noun. 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. ¹
2. Noun. (nautical) A post on a whaling boat used to secure the harpoon rope ¹
3. Noun. the loggerhead turtle ¹
4. Noun. the loggerhead shrike ¹
5. Noun. (informal) A dolt or blockhead ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Loggerhead
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Loggerhead
1.
1. A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull.
2. A spherical mass of iron, with a long handle, used to heat tar.
3. 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.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Loggerhead
Literary usage of Loggerhead
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bahama Songs and Stories: A Contribution to Folk-lore by Charles Lincoln Edwards (1895)
"Now dis day B' loggerhead an' B' Dog could n't find nothing to heat. ... So B'
loggerhead pitch 8 right inside ; gone right flat to bottom. ..."
2. The American Coast Pilot: Containing the Courses and Distances Between the by Edmund March Blunt (1822)
"About 2 or 3 leagues to the NW of Key Mohair, lies loggerhead Key, which may be
known by the southernmost part, having many small sand hills : give that key ..."
3. Catalogue of Stars Within Two Degrees of the North Pole Deduced from by Caroline Ellen Furness (1905)
"HEART OF loggerhead TURTLE. albumen of its own egg, but when it is 41 days old
it pulsates 6 to 7 hours m the albumen of its egg, which then sustains it ..."
4. Stage-Coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle (1900)
"Flip Classes, loggerhead, and Toddy Stick. " Where dozed a fire of beechen logs
that bred Strange fancies in its embers golden-red, And nursed the ..."
5. Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America: During by John Davis (1909)
"It is observable, that the loggerhead is known to suck the eggs of the mocking-bird
and devour the young ones in the nest. Eagles were often seen on the ..."
6. Ornithological Biography by John James Audubon (1832)
"THE loggerhead SHRIKE. LANIUS LUDOVICIANUS, Linn. PLATE LVII. MALE AND FEMALE.
THIS species may with great propriety be called an inhabitant of the " Low ..."
7. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1889)
"De Conch knowed dat de loggerhead could beat 'im walkin' 'so de Conch ... 'Im an'
de loggerhead started off together. De first mark de loggerhead get to 'e ..."
8. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1884)
"The loggerhead Shrike again in Massachusetts.— On January 29, 1884, Mr. Eastman of
this place observed two Shrikes by the roadside very near the centre of ..."
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