Naval To be at loggerheads is to be bad friends even if not actively quarrelling. The expression comes from the instrument used for heating pitch for coating the seams of a ship's decks - two large iron spheres one at each end of an iron bar. One of the spheres was heated and then put in the pitch bucket to melt the pitch. Thus the two logge... Found on http://www.britishempire.co.uk/glossary/l.htm