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loggerheads

loggerheads noun: fisticuffs; fighting. Also the plural of loggerhead.

Noun

loggerheads

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

Proper noun capitalized: Loggerheads

Loggerheads

  1. A village and civil parish in Newcastle-under-Lyme borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7336).
  2. A small village in Llanferres community, Denbighshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ1962).

Also used as

loggerheads is also the plural of loggerhead.

Words formed from loggerheads

Questions about loggerheads

What does loggerheads mean?
Loggerheads means fisticuffs; fighting.
What part of speech is loggerheads?
Loggerheads can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near loggerheads in the dictionary

  1. loggerhead shrike
  2. loggerhead shrikes
  3. loggerhead turtle
  4. loggerhead turtles
  5. loggerheaded
  6. loggerheads
  7. loggers
  8. logges
  9. logget
  10. loggets
  11. loggia

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