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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.