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Definition of Hobnails

Hobnail
Hobnail Hob"nail`, n. [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.
Hobnail
Hobnail Hob"nail`, v. t. To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes. Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush. --Tennyson.

Meaning of Hobnails from wikipedia

- hobnails. Hobnailed boots were formerly common in mountaineering to grip on sloping rock surfaces. These boots tended to have large pointed hobnails on...
- (sometimes called Fenton Hobnail) where the body of the piece has a regular array of bumps, as if finished with gl**** hobnails A po****r song from 1907...
- histopathology, hobnailing is the presence of smooth projections from an epithelial surface, which generally contain nuclei. Hobnailing is seen in clear...
- mid-calf or higher without laces and sometimes has a leather sole with hobnails. Jackboots have been ****ociated po****rly with totalitarianism, since they...
- an economy measure the number of hobnails were reduced in April, 1942 to 15 hobnails, later reduced to 13 hobnails in September, 1942. The boots were...
- (301) includes set prices for footwear described as caligae, but with no hobnails, made for civilian men, women and children. The caliga's midsole and the...
- that they didn't have hobnails, making them likely to scuff the hotel floor. In this case she would place a shingle over the hobnails, rendering the boots...
- developed as tougher alternatives to shoes for harsh weather or terrain, where hobnails would originally have been worn with s****ier versions of town boots. Now...
- the hobnail pattern. In 1940, Fenton started selling Hobnail items in French Opalescent, Green Opalescent and Cranberry Opalescent. The Hobnail pattern...
- conditions (e.g. the underside of combat boots may be reinforced with hobnails). In some cases, the wearing of boots may be required by laws or regulations...