loggerhead
English
Noun
loggerhead (plural loggerheads)
- 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.
- (nautical) A post on a whaling boat used to secure the harpoon rope.
- The loggerhead turtle.
- The loggerhead shrike.
- (obsolete) A dolt or blockhead.
- 1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, IV. iii. 202:
- Ah, you whoreson loggerhead, you were born to do me shame!
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
- 1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, IV. iii. 202:
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