loggerheads

See also: Loggerheads

English

Noun

loggerheads

1. plural of loggerhead
2. Fisticuffs; fighting.
3. (dialect) The knapweed.
   • 1912, Arnold Bennett, “Why the Clock Stopped”, in The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories, page 262:

     Loggerheads is a local term for a harmless plant called the knapweed (centaurea nigra) […]

Derived terms

• at loggerheads