meaning of loggerhead
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.
4. 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. An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike.
6. very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide ranging in warm open seas
Related Words
loggerhead | loggerhead shrike | loggerhead turtle | loggerheaded | loggerheads |
