An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
HOBNAILED
hobnailed
(adjective) marked by the wearing of heavy boots studded with hobnails; “hobnailed laborers”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
hobnailed (not comparable)
Having hobnails.
Source: Wiktionary
Hob"nailed`, a.
Definition: See with hobnails, as a shoe.
HOBNAIL
Hob"nail`, n. Etym: [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.
Hob"nail`, v. t.
Definition: To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes. Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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