a. Also 8 lugger-headed. [f. LOGGERHEAD (or parasynthetically f. LOGGER sb.2) + -ED2.]

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  1.  Thick-headed, stupid.

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1596.  Shaks., Tam. Shr., IV. i. 128. You logger-headed and vnpollisht groomes.

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1643.  J. White, 1st Cent. Scandal. Priests, 44. A company of logger headed fellowes.

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1667.  Cotton, Scarron., IV. 107. Like a Logger-headed Lubber.

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1831.  Trelawny, Adv. Younger Son, I. 73. You logger-headed fellow.

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  2.  Of animals: Having a large head. Loggerheaded duck = LOGGER-HEAD 6 b (c).

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1653.  Walton, Angler, ii. 62. Oh! it is a great loggerheaded Chub!

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1845.  Darwin, Voy. Nat., ix. (1852), 200. In these [Falkland] Islands a great loggerheaded duck or goose (Anas brachyptera) … is very abundant.

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1861.  Zoologist, XIX. 7603. The loggerheaded duck, whose wings … are used as propelling fins in the water.

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  transf.  1728.  Vanbr. & Cibber, Prov. Husb., II. i. A great Lugger-headed Cart, with Wheels as thick as a brick Wall.

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