Hobnail
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Hobnail is a noun meaning A short nail with a thick head, typically used in boot soles.
Meaning
A short nail with a thick head, typically used in boot soles.
More Meanings
- To fit with hobnails.
- (transitive, archaic) To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.
- (obsolete) A yokel; a rustic.
Example Sentences
a machine for the hobnailing of shoes
Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush.
There lay Tom; hobnail Tom! a bacon-munching, reckless, beer-swilling animal! and yet a man …
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.
Word Forms
- hobnails
- hobnailing
- hobnailed
Synonyms for hobnail
Depending on context, synonyms include strong, hobnailed.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include strong, horsenail, horse-nail, shoe-horn, shoeing-horn, hawknose.
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