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loggerhead

About 0.08 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A stupid person; a blockhead, a dolt.
  2. noun A metal tool consisting of a long rod with a bulbous end that is made hot in a fire, then plunged into some material (such as pitch or a liquid) to melt or heat it.
  3. noun A post on a whaling boat used to secure the harpoon rope.
  4. noun A thistle-like flowering plant of the genus Centaurea, particularly the common knapweed (Centaurea nigra).
  5. noun Used as the name of various animals with large heads. The loggerhead duck or Falkland steamer duck (Tachyeres brachypterus; formerly Tachyeres cinereus), a species of steamer duck endemic to the Falkland Islands.
  6. noun The loggerhead duck or Falkland steamer duck (Tachyeres brachypterus; formerly Tachyeres cinereus), a species of steamer duck endemic to the Falkland Islands.
  7. noun The loggerhead kingbird (Tyrannus caudifasciatus), a bird endemic to the Caribbean and West Indies.
  8. noun The rufous-tailed flycatcher (Myiarchus validus), a bird endemic to Jamaica.

Similar words

blockhead dunderhead knucklehead numskull dunce lunkhead bonehead muttonhead shithead hammerhead

Often followed by

turtle shrike turtles sea key shrikes and is musk

Word family

loggerheads

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