Harpoon vs Loggerhead - What's the difference?
harpoon | loggerhead |
A spearlike weapon with a barbed head used in hunting whales and large fish.
(slang) A harmonica.
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.
(nautical) A post on a whaling boat used to secure the harpoon rope
the loggerhead turtle
the loggerhead shrike
(obsolete) A dolt or blockhead
* 1590 , , IV. iii. 202:
As nouns the difference between harpoon and loggerhead
is that harpoon is a spearlike weapon with a barbed head used in hunting whales and large fish while loggerhead is 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.As a verb harpoon
is to hunt something with a harpoon.harpoon
English
(wikipedia harpoon)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* harpoon forkDerived terms
* harpoonerSee also
* spear English transitive verbsloggerhead
English
Noun
(en noun)- Ah, you whoreson loggerhead , you were born to do me shame!
- (Milton)