a. Also 8 lugger-headed. [f. LOGGERHEAD (or parasynthetically f. LOGGER sb.2) + -ED2.]
1. Thick-headed, stupid.
1596. Shaks., Tam. Shr., IV. i. 128. You logger-headed and vnpollisht groomes.
1643. J. White, 1st Cent. Scandal. Priests, 44. A company of logger headed fellowes.
1667. Cotton, Scarron., IV. 107. Like a Logger-headed Lubber.
1831. Trelawny, Adv. Younger Son, I. 73. You logger-headed fellow.
2. Of animals: Having a large head. Loggerheaded duck = LOGGER-HEAD 6 b (c).
1653. Walton, Angler, ii. 62. Oh! it is a great loggerheaded Chub!
1845. Darwin, Voy. Nat., ix. (1852), 200. In these [Falkland] Islands a great loggerheaded duck or goose (Anas brachyptera) is very abundant.
1861. Zoologist, XIX. 7603. The loggerheaded duck, whose wings are used as propelling fins in the water.
transf. 1728. Vanbr. & Cibber, Prov. Husb., II. i. A great Lugger-headed Cart, with Wheels as thick as a brick Wall.