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a thick-headed or stupid person; blockhead.
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EXPANDa ball or bulb of iron with a long handle, used, after being heated, to melt tar, heat liquids, etc.
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COLLAPSEa circular inkwell having a broad, flat base.
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at loggerheads, engaged in a disagreement or dispute; quarreling: They were at loggerheads over the distribution of funds.
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Loggerheads
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log·ger·head·ed, adjective
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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
EXPAND weapons. The phrase at loggerheads "in disagreement" is first recorded 1831.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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