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Webster 1913 Edition
Hobnail
Hob′nailˊ
,Noun.
[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′nailˊ
,Verb.
T.
To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.
Your rights and charters
hobnailed
into slush. Tennyson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Hobnail
HOB'NAIL
,Noun.
1.
A clownish person; in contempt.Definition 2024
hobnail
hobnail
English
Noun
hobnail (plural hobnails)
- A short nail with a thick head, typically used in boot soles.
- (obsolete) A clownish person; a rustic.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
Translations
short nail with a thick head
Verb
hobnail (third-person singular simple present hobnails, present participle hobnailing, simple past and past participle hobnailed)
- To fit with hobnails.
- a machine for the hobnailing of shoes
- (transitive) To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.
- 1875, Tennyson, Queen Mary
- Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush.
- 1875, Tennyson, Queen Mary