1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v. Loge, a watch. I suppose from the French horloge, a watch or clock.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Loge . . . he filed a cloy of a loge . . . he picked a pocket of a watch.
Loges, subs. (old).—See quot.
1610. Rowlands, Martin Mark-all, p. 39 (H. Club's Repr. 1874). Loges a passe or warrant. A Feager of loges, one that beggeth with false passes.
Loggerhead, subs. (old).—A block-*head.
For synonyms see Buffle
and Cabbage-head.
1589. Shakspeare, Love's Labour Lost, iv. 3, 207. Ah, you whoreson loggerhead! you were born to do me shame.
1597. Shakspeare, I Henry IV, ii. 4. 4. Poins. Where hast been, Hal? Prince. With three or four loggerheads amongst three or four score hogsheads.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe [Grosart (1883-4), v. 281]. A sweaty loggerhead.
1609. Dekker, Gul's Horn-booke [Grosart (1886), ii. 204]. In defiance of those terrible blockhouses, their logger-*heads make a true discovery of their wild country.
1667. Dryden, Sir Martin Markall, i. Warn. Pray, sir, let me alone: what is it to you if I rail upon myself? Now could I break my own logger-head.
1672. C. Cotton, Scarronides, Bk. i. p. 44 (ed. 1725). At last his Friend jog'd him with's Hand, How like a logger-head you stand!
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1704. Swift, Battle of the Books, in Prose Wks. (Camelot). A pack of rogues, and fools . . . and confounded loggerheads.
1777. Sheridan, Trip to Scarborough, i. 2. Lory. Here comes a head, sir, would contrive it better than both our loggerheads, if she would but join in the confederacy.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Loggerhead s.v.
1815. Scott, Guy Mannering, ii. ch. vii. 'What plea, you loggerhead,' said the lawyer.
Adj. (old).—Stupid. Also loggerheaded (q.V.).
1596. Nashe, Saffron Walden, in Works, iii. 104. For the printing of this logger-head Legend of lyes.
1711. Swift, Journal to Stella, 22 August, Lett. 28. Pretty, dear, little, naughty, saucy M.D. Silly, impudent, loggerhead Presto.
To be at (or come to) loggerheads, verb. phr. (old).—To quarrel; to come to blows.
1678. Cotton, Virgil Travestie, in Wks. (1725), Bk. iv. p. 90. He was . . . ready. . . . To fall to logger-*heads . . . with a few saucy Carpenters.
1688. Shadwell, Sq. of Alsatia, in Works (1720), iv. 19. Go to logger-*heads with the constable and the watch.
1690. B.E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1701. Farquhar, Sir Harry Wildair, i. They fell to loggerheads about their playthings.
1751. Smollett, Peregrine Pickle, xxxix. Who having driven their carts against each other, quarrelled, and went to loggerheads on the spot.
1828. Smeaton, Doings in London, 'The Humours of the Fleet.' Disputes more noisy now a quarrel breeds, And fools on both sides fall to loggerheads.
1846. Punch x. 46. The Queen's Speech, xxx. 'F. M. the Duke of Wellington will let Mr. Punch have the earliest intimation of anything definite being come to.' As we have not heard from his grace . . . we can only presume that the ministers were, up to the last moment, at loggerheads.
1876. C. H. Wall, trans. Molière, i. 199. You see that without my help you would still all be at loggerheads.
LOGGERHEADED, adj. (old).—Block-*headed.
Also log-headed.
1567. Edwards, Damon & Pithias [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), iv. 65]. For well I knew it was some mad-headed child That invented this name, That the log-headed knave might be beguiled.
1596-7. Shakspeare, Taming of the Shrew, iv. 1. You logger-headed and unpolish'd grooms.
