i Register
In some senses, hobnail is marked as obsolete, archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
A short nail with a thick head, typically used in boot soles.
A yokel; a rustic.
Next, the word Politician is not us'd to his maw, and therupon he plays the most notorious hobbihors, jesting and frisking in the luxury of his non-sense with such poor fetches to cog a laughter from us, that no antic hobnaile at a Morris, but is more hansomly facetious.
There lay Tom; hobnail Tom! a bacon-munching, reckless, beer-swilling animal! and yet a man …
verb
To fit with hobnails.
a machine for the hobnailing of shoes
To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.
Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush.