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A short nail with a thick head
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hobnail
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A hobnail is a short nail with a thick head: used to increase the durability of boot soles. Hobnail may also refer to: A pattern of glassware : (sometimes called Fenton Hobnail) where the body of the piece has a regular array of bumps, as if finished with ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, the first element probably identical with hob "rounded peg or pin used as a mark or target in games" (1580s), of unknown origin. See hob . Because they were used to make rough shoes, the word was used figuratively for "rustic person" 17c. and after. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hobnail \Hob"nail`\, n. [1st hob + nail.] A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes. A clownish person; a rustic. --Milton. Hobnail liver (Med.), a disease in which the liver is shrunken, ...
Usage examples of hobnail.
In plain buffin doublets and kersey stockings and heavy, hobnail shoes, they stood cheek by jowl with artisans in leather jerkins and red Monmouth caps.
There was no doubt what he was from the hobnailed boots, but he was using his spear, the only piece of equipment he carried, as a walking stick the way Cashel did his quarterstaff.
Loisl, and cut slices with his hunting knife from a large white radish and ate them with black bread, shining good-humor from the tip of the black-cock feather on his old green felt hat to his bare, bronzed knees and his hobnailed shoes.
A caped coat, fastened to the throat, hung over the short kilt skirt, and rough gaiters buttoned down over a wonderful little pair of hobnailed boots.
Their hobnailed boots crashed on the planking and the dangling metal fittings of their armor jingled together.
Garric remembered kicking and being surprised when his bare heel instead of a hobnailed bootsole crunched hard against jelly-coated bone.
In the one the are plenty of impressions of his big hobnailed bootsin the other, none!
He was a swaggerer who thought himself a handsome fellow despite a scarred cheek and the two toes missing from the left foot visible through his hobnailed sandals.
In deference to the sleep of those they protected, the Blood Eagles on interior guard wore soft-soled sandals rather than hobnailed boots.
A Blood Eagle judged his placement, then stamped his hobnailed heel on the knife.
I bring you home to keep you from freezing your goobers off, and I get Hobnailed for my trouble.
He had changed his uniform for a goatskin, wore hobnailed shoes, a belt full of pistols, and carried a heavy carbine.
Atretes followed Hadassah into the room the guard had opened, he listened to the sound of the hobnailed sandals on stone and clenched his fist.
Half a dozen women sat at a plain deal table in the centre of the room, some dressed in black overalls and hobnailed boots, some in bombazine dresses and woollen shawls, a few in clothes they appeared to have stitched for themselves.
Blanco ignored him while he did not shirk but was quick with a fist or hobnailed boot for any who fell behind.