Lŏg'ger-hĕad, n.

n. [From log and head.]

1. A blockhead; a dunce; a dolt; a numskull.
2. A spherical mass of iron, with a long handle, used to heat tar.
3. (Naut.) A piece of round timber, in a whale-boat, over which the line is passed, to make it run more slowly.
4. A species of marine turtle.

To be at loggerheads, to fall to loggerheads, or to go to loggerheads, to come to blows; to be at strife.