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Hobnail

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A short nail with a thick head, typically used in boot soles.
  2. 2
    a short nail with a thick head; used to protect the soles of boots wordnet
  3. 3
    A yokel; a rustic. obsolete

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    To fit with hobnails.

    "a machine for the hobnailing of shoes"

  2. 2
    supply with hobnails wordnet
  3. 3
    To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes. archaic, transitive

    "Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From hob + nail. The oldest attestation is in William Shakespeare, but he likely did not coin the term.

Etymology 2

From hob + nail. The oldest attestation is in William Shakespeare, but he likely did not coin the term.

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