at loggerhead definition
This term may have come from some earlier meaning of loggerhead, referring either to a blockhead or stupid person, or to a long-handled iron poker with a bulb-shaped end that was heated in the fire and used to melt pitch.If it was the latter, it may have been alluded to as a weapon.ngaged in a quarrel or dispute, as in The two families were always at loggerheads, making it difficult to celebrate holidays together.