loggerhead
Kelime Anlamı :

1. salak.
2. i., zool. adi denizkaplumbağası, Caretta caretta.
3. sürüp giden anlasmazlik.
Eş Anlamlı Kelimeler :
Tanımlar :
1. a tool consisting of a rod with a bulbous end, used once made hot in a fire for the purpose of heating liquids that it is plunged into.
2. A post on a whaling boat used to secure the harpoon rope
3. the loggerhead turtle
4. the loggerhead shrike
5. A dolt or blockhead
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1. A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull.
2. A spherical mass of iron, with a long handle, used to heat tar.
3. an upright piece of round timber, in a whaleboat, over which a turn of the line is taken when it is running out too fast.
4. A very large marine turtle (Thalassochelys caretta syn. Thalassochelys caouana), common in the warmer parts of the atlantic ocean, from brazil to cape cod; -- called also logger-headed turtle.
5. an american shrike (lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. see shrike.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. A blockhead; a dunce; a dolt; a thickskull.
2. A spherical mass of iron with a long handle, used after being heated for various purposes, as to liquefy tar, to ignite the priming of a cannon, etc. also called loggerheat.
3. A post in the stern of a whale-boat, with a bell-shaped head, around which the harpoon-line passes; a snubbing-post.
4. the hawk-billed turtle, a marine species of the genus Thalassochelys, as the american loggerhead, T. caouana or caretta, or the indian, T. olivacea; also, the alligator-turtle of the southern united states, Macrochelys lacertina.
5. the small gray or carolinian shrike, lanius ludovicianus, a bird of the family Laniidæ, resident and abundant in the southern parts of the united states, and sometimes as far north as new england.
6. A flycatcher.
7. the chub.
8. A kind of sponge found in florida.
9. plural the knapweed, centaurea nigra; also, the blue-bottle, C. Cyanus.
10. in the southern united states, the common snapping-turtle, Chelydra serpentina.
11. specificallyin the british west indies, a name applied to two large tyrant flycatchers, Pitangus caudifas-ciatus, and Myiarchus crinitus.
12. the steamer-duck, Tachyeres cinereus, a flightless water-fowl of the Falkland islands and straits of magellan.
13. A lever or walking-beam which connects the piston-rod of an engine to the pump-plunger.
14. A pewter inkstand, circular and very heavy.
15. A large, heavy head, out of proportion to the body.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
1. very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas
2. a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence
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