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Definition of Hobnails
1. hobnail [v] - See also: hobnail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hobnails
Literary usage of Hobnails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1887)
"SIX hobnails. [From the Same.] I PRAY let me drive in half a dozen plain honest
Country hobnails, sueh as the Martyrs were wont to wear; to make my work ..."
2. Out of Doors by Emerson Hough (1915)
"There have not been lacking army shoes which also were weighted down with hobnails.
The German marching boot of old type was such a boot. ..."
3. Diseases of the Liver, Gall-bladder and Bile-ducts by Humphry Davy Rolleston (1904)
"In the same liver the colour of different hobnails often varies, some being
yellow, others of a brownish-red colour. This may be due to irregularity in the ..."
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