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hobnail
noun 2verb 2
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2ADJ.
lay
HOBNAIL + NOUN
bacon-munching, tom
Definitions
noun
1
A short nail with a thick head, typically used in boot soles.
2
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
1
To fit with hobnails.
a machine for the hobnailing of shoes
2
To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.
Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush.
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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
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There lay Tom; hobnail Tom! a bacon-munching, reckless, beer-swilling animal! and yet a man …
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a machine for the hobnailing of shoes
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Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush.
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