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Post by The Shropshire Tenor on Apr 29, 2016 10:18:17 GMT 1
I found this passage in an historical novel, The Commodore, part of a series by Patrick O'Brian about the British navy during the Napoleonic wars. The ships surgeon is inspecting the sick bay where there are 2 sailors with broken bones.
"They had been sparring with loggerheads, those massive iron balls with long handles to be carried red hot from the fire and plunged into buckets of tar or pitch so that the substance can be melted with no risk of flame."
It goes on nto say that sailors would settle disputes by fighting with loggerheads, which could inflict severe damage and that this is where the phrase, 'being at loggerheads', comes from.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2016 17:41:27 GMT 1
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