loggerhead

n. மரமண்டை, மூடன், வெப்பூட்டத்தக்க இருபுற உருளைகளையுடைய நிலக்கீல் உருக்குகருவி, படகில் கயிறுகளின் திசைத்திருப்பத்துக்குரிய நிலைக் கம்பம், பெருந்தலைக் கடலாமை வகை, பெருந்தலைப் பறவை வகை.

Log"ger*head`, n. Etym: [Log + head.] 1. A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull. Shak. Milton. 2. A spherical mass of iron, with a long handle, used to heat tar. 3. (Naut.) Defn: An upright piece of round timber, in a whaleboat, over which a turn of the line is taken when it is running out too fast. Ham. Nav. Encyc. 4. (Zoöl.) Defn: A very large marine turtle (Thalassochelys caretta, or caouana), common in the warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil to Cape Cod; -- called also logger-headed turtle. 5. (Zoöl.) Defn: An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike. To be at loggerheads, To fall to loggerheads, or To go to loggerheads, to quarrel; to be at strife. L' Estrange.

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