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loggerhead

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10 lettersPronunciation /ˈlɒɡəhɛd/Part of speech nounSorted adeegghlorStarts with LEnds with D0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas

Word origin

From logger (“(dialectal) heavy wooden block secured to a horse's leg to prevent it from straying”) + head. Logger was apparently coined because its sound connotes a clumsy, heavy object; compare log (“trunk of a dead tree; bulky piece of wood”).

Used in a sentence

  • Ah, you whoreſon loggerhead, you were borne to do me ſhame.
  • [Y]ou in the mean time, you ſilly Logerhead, deſerve to have your Bones well-thraſh'd with a Fool's ſtaff, for thinking to ſtir up Kings and Princes to War by ſuch Childiſh Arguments.
  • Loggerheads, from the resemblance of its knobbed involucres to a weapon so called, consisting of a ball of iron at the end of a stick, the knapweed, the Clobbewed of old MSS. Centaurea nigra, L.

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