loggerheads

See also: Loggerheads

English

Noun

loggerheads

  1. plural of loggerhead
  2. Fisticuffs; fighting.
  3. (dialect) The knapweed.
    • 1912, Arnold Bennett, “Why the Clock Stopped”, in The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories, page 262:
      Loggerheads is a local term for a harmless plant called the knapweed (centaurea nigra) […]

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