Loggerhead

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Loggerhead could refer to:

• the Loggerhead Sea Turtle
• the Loggerhead Shrike
• USS Loggerhead (SS-374)
• an iron instrument with a long handle and a ball at its end used to melt pitch in a fire

Loggerheads can refer to:

• the feature film Loggerheads

or at least two villages in the United Kingdom

• Loggerheads, Staffordshire
• Loggerheads, Wales

Other use:

• The terms go to loggerheads, to be at loggerheads, or to come to loggerheads means to come to blows or to have a strong difference of opinion. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the origin of this use is obscure. It is suggested that the terms may have originated to describe a conflict wherein the iron loggerhead instruments described above are used as weapons.