hobnailn.
/ˈhɒbneɪl/, U.S. /ˈhɑbˌneɪl/ 1. A nail with massive head and short tang, used for protecting the soles of heavy boots and shoes.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > protective studs or plates > for sole
hobnail1594
hob1686
clout-nail1874
screw-in1969
1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iv. ix. 59 I beseech God thou maist fal into some smiths hand, and be turn'd to hobnailes.
1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor i. iii. sig. C3v Not so much as a good word in his bellie, all iron, iron, a good commoditie for a smith to make hob-nailes on. View more context for this quotation
1607 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse sig. B They treade heauy where their Hob-nailes fall.
c1700 Bp. Kennett in Lansd. MS. 1033 lf. 184 [190] Hob-nail, small short nail, with a round head, used for the bottom of Plough-Men's shoes.
1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 50 The sensation as if he was lying on a number of hobnails.
2. transferred. A man who wears hobnailed shoes; a rustic, clodhopper, clown. So Hobnails, as generic proper name.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant > ignorant
chuffc1440
lob1533
lobcocka1556
hick1565
bumpkin1570
swad1572
hob-clunch1578
hoblob1582
clubhutchen1584
gran1591
bacon1598
boor1598
hobbinol1600
homespun1600
lob-coat1604
loblolly1604
hobnail1645
bacon-slicer1653
jobson1660
hob-thrush1682
country put1688
put1688
clodhopper1699
bumpkinet1714
joskin1811
yokel1819
whopstraw1821
chaw-bacon1822
lobeline1844
farmer1864
sheepshagger1958
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] > rude or ignorant
chuffc1440
mobarda1450
lob1533
lobcocka1556
clown1565
hick1565
bumpkin1570
swad1572
peasant1576
hob-clunch1578
hoblob1582
clubhutchen1584
bacon1598
boor1598
hobbinol1600
homespun1600
loblolly lamb1600
lob-coat1604
loblolly1604
hobnail1645
champkina1652
bacon-slicer1653
jobson1660
hob-thrush1682
country put1688
put1688
country cousin1692
clodhopper1699
hawbuck1787
Johnny Raw1803
joskin1811
yokel1819
whopstraw1821
chaw-bacon1822
lobeline1844
country jake1845
Hoosier1846
hayseed1851
Reuben1855
scissorbill1876
agricole1882
country jay1888
rube1891
jasper1896
farmer1903
stump jumper1936
woop woop1936
potato head1948
no-neck1961
1645 J. Milton Colasterion 17 No antic hobnaile at a Morris, but is more hansomly facetious.
1684 T. Otway Atheist i. 5 Thou unconscionable Hobnail.
1705 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft 13 Then, replied Hob-Nails, how is it possible that there could be either Night or Day, when there was neither Sun, Moon, nor Stars.
1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians I. 353 Troops of hobnails clumping to church.
Compounds
C1. attributive or adj. Clownish, rustic, boorish.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [adjective] > rude or ignorant peasant
bacon-fed1598
hobnailed1599
pezantic1613
municipal1619
hobnail1624
swainish1642
bumpkinly1656
puttish1738
bumpkinish1778
hobbish1823
yokel1823
small-town1824
clodhopping1828
yokelish1886
hick1920
1624 J. Gee Foot out of Snare in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts (1810) III. 76 The first question that an hob-naile spectator made, before he would pay his penny..was, Whether there be a devil and a foole in the play?
1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xxx. sig. F5v Hee..has some thriftie Hobnayle Prouerbes to Clout his discourse.
1658 J. Robinson Endoxa Pref. 3 Barbarous and hobnail phrases.
C2. attributive and in other combinations, as hobnail shoe; hobnail-proof adj.
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1607 S. Rowlands Dr. Merrie-man (1609) 4 Their Shooes were Hob-naile proofe, soundly bepegg'd.
1847 Buckstone Rough Diamond i How I used to kick you in my hob-nail shoes!
C3.
hobnail liver n. = hobnailed liver n. at hobnailed adj. 1b.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > glandular disorders > [noun] > disorders of liver
hepatitis1699
liver rot1785
liver1805
gin liver1830
nutmeg liver1833
cirrhosis1839
Laennec's cirrhosis1839
gin drinker's liver1845
yellow atrophy1845
hobnailed liver1849
red atrophy1849
hobnail liver1882
fascioliasis1884
infectious hepatitis1891
distomatosis1892
distomiasis1892
hepatomegalia1893
infective hepatitis1896
spirit liver1896
hepatoma1905
hepatosplenomegalia1930
Pick's syndrome1932
serum hepatitis1943
Pick's syndrome1955
micronodular cirrhosis1960
macronodular cirrhosis1967
hep1975
1882 R. Quain Dict. Med. Hobnail Liver, a name given to a cirrhotic liver, when it presents small prominences on its surface resembling hobnails.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
hobnailv.
1. transitive. To furnish or set with hobnails.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > make footwear [verb (transitive)] > stud with nails
cloutc1394
hobnail1649
hob1874
tacket1896
1649 Trag. Massenello 62 I'le..hob-naile my shoos with a couple of old thorns.
2. To trample down, as with hobnailed shoes.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > press or squeeze [verb (transitive)] > crush > trample down
treadc825
oftreadeOE
fortreadc1000
overrunOE
treadc1000
fulla1400
trample1530
trachlec1550
betrample1567
hobnail1875
to plough down1877
steamroll1900
steamroller1913
1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary ii. ii. 80 Your rights and charters hobnail'd into slush.
Derivatives
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ˈhobnailer n. a machine for putting hobnails into the soles of boots ( Labour Commission Gloss. 1892).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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