loggerhead

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

LOG'GERHEAD, noun [log and head.] 1. A blockhead; a dunce; a dolt; a thick-skull. 2. A spherical mass of iron, with a long handle; used to heat tar. To fall to loggerheads, To go to loggerheads, to come to blows; to fall to fighting without weapons.
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