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See Lodge. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Made slow and heavy in movement; water-logged. Beaconsfield.

One engaged in logging. See Log, v. i. [U.S.] Lowell.

common in the warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil to Cape Cod; -- called also logger-headed turtle.

Dull; stupid. Shak. A rabble of loggerheaded physicians. Urquhart.

The knapweed.

One who flogs.

A hard hitter; a slugger. [Cant or Slang] T. Hughes.

Filled or saturated with water so as to be heavy, unmanageable, or loglike; -- said of a vessel, when, by receiving a great quantity of water into her hold, she has become so heavy as not to be manageable by the helm.

load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper. The winds of birds were clogged with ace and snow. Dryden.

The state of being clogged.

Daggle-tailed; having the tail clogged with daglocks. "Dag- tailed sheep." Bp. Hall.

Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. "Had a drag in his walk." Hazlitt.

To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun.

To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.

a ship's floor immediately above the timbers, so as to prevent the limbers from becoming clogged. -- Limber box or chest (Mil.), a box on the limber for carrying ammunition. -- Limber rope, Limber chain or Limber clearer (Naut.), a rope or chain passing through the limbers of a ship, by which they may be cleared of d…

stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn. Longfellow. [U.S.]

A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; hence, a prison. [Slang] "Flogged or whipped in quod." T. Hughes.

cies of chelonians having the feet converted into paddles, as the green turtle, hawkbill, loggerhead, and leatherback. They inhabit all warm seas.

hich, when full grown, is incapable of flight, owing to its very small wings. Called also loggerhead, race horse, and side wheel duck.