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Definition of Hobnail

1. Verb. Supply with hobnails.

2. Noun. A short nail with a thick head; used to protect the soles of boots.

Definition of Hobnail

1. n. A short, sharp-pointed, large- headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes.

2. v. t. To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.

Definition of Hobnail

1. Noun. A short nail with a thick head, typically used in boot soles. ¹

2. Verb. To fit with hobnails. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hobnail

1. to put hobnails (short nails with a broad head) on a shoe sole [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Hobnail

1. 1. A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes. 2. A clownish person; a rustic. Hobnail liver, a disease in which the liver is shrunken, hard, and covered with projections like hobnails; one of the forms of cirrhosis of the liver. Origin: 1st hob + nail. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hobnail

hobeler hoberdehoy hoberdehoys hobgoblin hobgoblins hobhouchin hobilar hobiler hobilers hobjob

hobjobbed hobjobs hoblike hoblin hoblins hobnail (current term) hobnail boot hobnail cells hobnail liver hobnail tongue

hobnailed hobnailing hobnails hobnobbed hobnobber hobnobbers hobnobbing hobnobby hobnobs

Literary usage of Hobnail

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Pathological Histology by Victor Cornil (1880)
"... or granular «pon enlarged and granular. its surface, while the organ is B. Granular Liver; hobnail Liver. — The granular state, which always indicates a ..."

2. The Humourist's Own Book: A Cabinet of Original and Selected Anecdotes, Bon by Author of The young man's own book (1836)
"replied the king, in Wit in a hobnail. ] A proud parson and his man, riding over a com mon, saw a shepherd ..."

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