hobnail
English
Noun
hobnail (plural hobnails)
Translations
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
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