Log"ger*head` (?), n. [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. [Nautical|Naut.]

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. [Zoology|Zool.]

A very large marine turtle (Thalassochelys caretta, ∨ caouana), common in the warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil to Cape Cod; -- called also [logger-headed turtle].

5. [Zoology|Zool.]

An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See [Shrike].

[To be at loggerheads], [To fall to loggerheads], ∨ [To go to loggerheads], to quarrel; to be at strife.

L' Estrange.

© [Webster 1913].

Loggerhead (definition)