hobnail

noun 2verb 2

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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