hobnailed
(adjective) marked by the wearing of heavy boots studded with hobnails; “hobnailed laborers”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hobnailed (not comparable)
Having hobnails.
Source: Wiktionary
Hob"nailed`, a.
Definition: See with hobnails, as a shoe.
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
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
