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