loggerhead
suomi-englanti sanakirjaloggerhead englannista suomeksi
pölkkypää
valekarettikilpikonna
Substantiivi
loggerhead englanniksi
(synonyms)
(RQ:Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost Q1)
(RQ:Milton Defence)
A metal tool consisting of a long rod with a bulbous end that is made hot in a fire, then plunged into some material (such as pitch or a liquid) to melt or heat it.
(quote-journal)|year=1865|year_published=1866|page=48|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=uwsTAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA48|column=1|oclc=941800684|passage=''Stalleen Station.'' Four new sets of hand-rails, one new foot-board, and one new sluice have been put on. A new balance beam has been put on the guard lock, and the sluices, bearing irons, and loggerheads secured. The other works are in good order.
(quote-book)
(RQ:Melville Moby-Dick)
A thistle-like flowering plant of the genus (taxfmt), particularly the (vern) ((taxlink)).
(quote-book)|location=London; Edinburgh|publisher=(w),(nb...)|year=1863|page=137|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=eqtWAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA137|oclc=20030890|passage=(smallcaps), from the resemblance of its knobbed involucres to a weapon so called, consisting of a ball of iron at the end of a stick, the knapweed, the Clobbewed of old MSS. Centaurea nigra, L.
(quote-book)|series=Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores|location=London|publisher=Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer|year=1866|volume=III|page=315|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=thc2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA315|column=1|oclc=926856984|passage=Bolwes, ''loggerheads'', ''centaurea nigra.'' (..) Bolwes is ''balls'', the hard round heads of the wort. Loggerheads is a name I have often heard in Oxfordshire.
(non-gloss definition)
The (l) or (vern) ((taxfmt); formerly ''Tachyeres cinereus''), a species of duck endemic to the Islands.
(quote-journal), printer to the (w)|date=9 November 1775|year_published=1776|volume=XLVI, part I|issue=446|page=104|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ndNeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA104|oclc=630046584|passage=But here is a ſpecies of ducks, called the loggerhead, from its large head. They have ſhort wings, are unable to fly, and only ſwim and flap along on the water at an extraordinary rate.
(quote-book)|edition=3rd revised and corrected|location=Boston, Mass.|publisher=Thomas & Andrews(nb...)|month=July|year=1810|oclc=1205251|passage=A ſpecies of duck, as large as a gooſe, and called the loggerhead duck at the Falkland Iſlands, is here met with, which beats the water with its wings and feet, and runs along the ſea with inconceivable velocity; (..)
(quote-journal)|month=April|year=1861|volume=III|issue=X|section=paragraph 42|page=161|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=JAVHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA161|oclc=36672321|passage=(smallcaps) (Gm.). (Loggerhead Duck.) This Duck, which is called the ‘Loggerhead’ in the Falkland Islands, frequents the salt water. (..) Looking for the Loggerhead’s eggs, which are esteemed a great delicacy, is a great amusement to all the boys in Stanley.
The (l) ((taxlink)), a bird endemic to the Caribbean and Indies.
(quote-journal)|journal=Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia|location=Philadelphia, Pa.|publisher=of Natural Sciences of Drexel University|Academy of Natural Sciences,(nb...)|month=October–November|year=1863|issue=6|page=291|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=E-UyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA291|oclc=804339630|passage=Early in the season, a pair of Loggerheads, ''Tyrannus caudifasciatus'', appropriated the same tree to themselves, and commenced constructing their nest. The Mocking birds were seen constantly in the square, but never interrupted or interfered with them until they had nearly completed the nest; they then drove away the Loggerheads, took possession of it, added a few sticks to the outwork, laid the eggs and hatched the young brood. The poor Loggerheads hovered about the place in great distress for a few days, but never attempted to regain possession of their property.
The (vern) ((taxlink)), a bird endemic to Jamaica.
(quote-journal)|journal=Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia|location=Philadelphia, Pa.|publisher=of Natural Sciences of Drexel University|Academy of Natural Sciences,(nb...)|month=October–November|year=1863|issue=6|section=paragraph 50|page=288|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=E-UyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA288|oclc=804339630|passage=(smallcaps), Cab. (''Tyrannus crinitus'', Gosse.)—The Red Petchary of the South and the Red Loggerhead of the mountains and Western districts agrees with the common Loggerhead in its general habits, except that of association; it is always found solitary, or in pairs; (..)
(quote-journal) I have received here also one of the parent birds, and in this instance I have been again surprised to learn that it is the Loggerhead, and not ''borealis'' or ''excubitoroides'', that is the species referred to. (..) So that we have in all ten well-authenticated instances of the Loggerhead breeding in the very heart of two of the most northerly of the New England States.
The (l) ((taxlink)), a large-headed turtle endemic to the States.
(quote-book) / (..) Most numerous in large calcareous springs, where they may be seen at night wandering around on the bottom, especially about piles of debris.
(quote-book) The head of old loggerhead musk turtles becomes disproportionately enlarged, as does the front half of the entire shell.
The (l) or turtle ((taxfmt)), an oceanic turtle found throughout the world.
(RQ:Goldsmith History of the Earth)
(quote-journal)|month=November|year=1850|volume=XLII|issue=CCLI|page=548|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=FUMvTl6uzXwC&pg=PA548|oclc=173347075|passage=Our boat was hoisted out, and a loggerhead turtle struck as it was sleeping on the surface of the water. (..) Dr. (w), in his ''Natural History of Jamaica'', mentions the hawksbill, the green turtle, and the loggerhead only. (..) The loggerhead from which his description was taken was caught near the Western Islands, many leagues out at sea.
(quote-book), (w)|date=20 February 1987|section=section III.A.1 (Loggerheads)|page=33|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=hzo3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA33|oclc=15869990|passage=The currest estimated number of loggerhead females nesting annually from North Carolina to Key Biscayne, Florida is 20,640 (± 6,328). This nesting level has been relatively stable since 1980 and accounts for about 98 percent of all loggerhead nesting within the continental United States.