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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
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Loggerheads
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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