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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
loggerhead/ˈlɒɡəhɛd/
noun
  • 1 (also loggerhead turtle) a large-headed reddish-brown turtle of warm seas. [Caretta caretta.]
  • 2 archaic a foolish person.
– phrases
at loggerheads in violent dispute or disagreement. [perh. a use of loggerhead in the 17th-cent. sense ‘long-handled iron instrument for heating liquids’ (when wielded as a weapon).]
– origin C16: from dial. logger ‘block of wood for hobbling a horse’ + head.




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