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Harpoon vs Loggerhead - What's the difference?

harpoon | loggerhead |

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

Noun

(en noun)
  • A spearlike weapon with a barbed head used in hunting whales and large fish.
  • (slang) A harmonica.
  • Derived terms

    * harpoon fork

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hunt something with a harpoon.
  • Derived terms

    * harpooner

    See also

    * spear English transitive verbs

    loggerhead

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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:
  • Ah, you whoreson loggerhead , you were born to do me shame!
    (Milton)