A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes.
A clownish person; a rustic. Milton. Hobnail liver (Med.), a disease in which the liver is shrunken, hard, and covered with projections like hobnails; one of the forms of cirrhosis of the liver.
To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes. Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush. Tennyson.
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