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LOGGERHEADED

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log⋅ger⋅head

  [law-ger-hed, log-er-]
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–noun
1. a thick-headed or stupid person; blockhead.
2. loggerhead turtle.
3. loggerhead shrike.
4. a ball or bulb of iron with a long handle, used, after being heated, to melt tar, heat liquids, etc.
5. a rounded post, in the stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon line is passed.
6. a circular inkwell having a broad, flat base.
—Idiom
7. at loggerheads, engaged in a disagreement or dispute; quarreling: They were at loggerheads over the distribution of funds.
Origin:
1580–90; logger block of wood (first attested alone in 18th century) + head

Related forms:
log⋅ger⋅head⋅ed, adjective
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Word Origin & History

loggerhead 
1588, "stupid person, blockhead," from dial. logger "heavy block of wood." Later it meant "a thick-headed iron tool" (1687), a type of cannon shot, a type of turtle (1657). Loggerheads "fighting, fisticuffs" is from 1680, but the exact notion is uncertain, perhaps it suggests the heavy tools used as weapons. The phrase at loggerheads "in disagreement" is first recorded 1831.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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