Hob"nail` (?), n. [1st hob + nail.] 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.
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.
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Hob"nail`, v. t. To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.
Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush.
Tennyson.
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