Loggerhead

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1. Noun

A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull.

2. Noun

A spherical mass of iron, with a long handle, used to heat tar.

3. Noun

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.

4. Noun

A very large marine turtle (Thalassochelys caretta, / caouana), common in the warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil to Cape Cod; -- called also logger-headed turtle.

5. Noun

An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike.

6. Noun

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