loggerhead

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The National Marine Fisheries Service must approve the shutdown, but it is likely to do so because of mounting evidence that long-line fishing is killing sea turtles like the loggerhead, a species protected by the Endangered Species Act.

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  1. noun A loggerhead turtle.
  2. noun An iron tool consisting of a long handle with a bulbous end, used when heated to melt tar or warm liquids.
  3. noun Nautical A post on a whaleboat used to secure the harpoon rope.
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  • You know what it means to be at loggerheads, but do you know what a loggerhead is?
  • There is considerable disagreement about the origin of the phrase, but I suspect that it comes from the tool known as the loggerhead.
  • The larger loggerhead was rescued about 20 nautical miles off the coast of Tampa. —  ABC7 News
  • "The loggerhead is eating several pounds of squid a day in addition to some crabs," said McNamara. —  ABC7 News
  • ~ / Projects / repos / loggerhead, the mirror of trunk, and a feature branch we just created. —  Planet Ubuntu
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  1. Probably dialectal logger, wooden block (probably from log1) + head.

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  1. from logger + head.
 

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/ˈlɑgərhɛd/
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