3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hobnail \Hob"nail`\, n. [1st hob + nail.]
1. A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in
shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes.
2. A clownish person; a rustic. --Milton.
{Hobnail liver} (Med.), a disease in which the liver is
shrunken, hard, and covered with projections like
hobnails; one of the forms of cirrhosis of the liver.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hobnail \Hob"nail`\, v. t.
To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.
Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush.
--Tennyson.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
hobnail
adj : of heavy boots; set with or having the soles protected with
hobnails; "hobnailed boots" [syn: {hobnailed}]
n : a short nail with a thick head; used to protect the soles of
boots
v : supply with hobnails
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