HOBNAILED

hobnailed

(adjective) marked by the wearing of heavy boots studded with hobnails; “hobnailed laborers”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

hobnailed (not comparable)

Having hobnails.

Source: Wiktionary

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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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