Loggerhead

Loggerhead or Loggerheads may refer to:

Idioms

• An insult; referring to someone as a "loggerhead" was a formerly common way of calling them an idiot
• To be "at loggerheads" is a slang term meaning to be in a controversy or dispute with no obvious resolution

Locations

• Loggerhead Key, the largest islet in the Dry Tortugas, Florida
• Loggerheads, Denbighshire, a village in Denbighshire, Wales
• Loggerheads, Staffordshire, a small village in north Staffordshire, England
• Loggerheads and Whitmore ward, a ward in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, England

Fauna and flora

• Loggerhead musk turtle, the turtle Sternotherus minor
• Loggerhead sea turtle, the sea turtle Caretta caretta
• Loggerhead Shrike, the passerine bird Lanius ludovicianus
• Loggerhead, an English Midlands term for Common Knapweed (Centaurea nigra) and Cornflower (C. cyanus)
  • (The) Loggerheads, an English Midlands toponym of meadows where these Centaurea grow or grew in abundance
• Loggerheads, the heraldic term for leopards' faces, e.g., on the coat of arms of Shropshire (England) and its county town, Shrewsbury

Media

• Loggerheads (film), a 2005 film written and directed by Tim Kirkman
• Loggerheads (TV series), a popular 1997 German-made cartoon about Vikings, broadcast in different countries
• Loggerheads (1993), an album by Canadian punk band D.O.A.

Other

• Loggerhead (tool), two iron balls attached by an iron rod used by shipbuilders to melt pitch
• Loggerhead Inc., a software development firm located in Washington, DC.
• USS Loggerhead (SS-374), a Balao-class submarine, named for the sea turtle, laid down and launched in 1944

References

• Duignan, William H. (1902): Notes on Staffordshire Place Names. Oxford University Press.