loggerheads

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noun

Fisticuffs; fighting.

UncommonScrabble 17

Meanings

loggerheads1

noun
  1. pluralplural of loggerhead
  2. Fisticuffs; fighting.
  3. dialectalThe 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

Loggerheads2

proper noun
  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).
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