Hobnails

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Definitions and meanings of "Hobnails"

What do we mean by hobnails?

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

A clownish person; a rustic.

Having filthier, more enthusiastic sexual intercourse with your significant other at a hotel simply because you are not in your own home. Urban Dictionary

To kick the living shit out of someone during a fight. Derived from hobnailed boots that are heavy durable boots with hobnails through the soles. If you kicked someone with a hobnailed boot, you'd likely do some damage. Urban Dictionary

Of french origin; le hob a hobnail is a type of french salad dressing, mainly used by those in prison. Urban Dictionary

To shamelessly pander for a Pulitzer or other, similar award, especially by choosing as one's theme, certain hot-button social issues that the committee would likely feel obliged to vote for. (Possibly a conflation of Hobbes' "war of all against all" with Machiavelli's advice to give lip-service to virtue but act viciously.) Urban Dictionary

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The word "hobnails" in example sentences

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die. ❋ Charles Babbage (1831)

The legionary is also wearing an apron of leather strips featuring metal plates hanging from his belt, and caligae, leather sandals with iron hobnails. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They struggled with the flag, its three primary colors flapping in a wind, cross-illuminated by many beams of light that illustrated the whole piece, the ripples of muscle, the rents in the metal clothing, the hobnails in the worn combat boots, the twelve-foot rifles, all in the muted, fading green of military glory, its tarnish eroded by the ages. ❋ Stephen Hunter (2010)

A jackboot is a laceless military boot that comes almost to the knee; whose sole is studded with steel hobnails and whose heel is rimmed with steel. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As a boy and a man, he was a cobbler by trade, working the hobnails and lacing, but his passion was in shaping the instruments of sound whenever he could. ❋ Unknown (2009)

All that remains intact is metal: the clicking heel studs, the little bootlace eyes, and a million hobnails, tacks and studs. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Like those of the lowest order of pawnbrokers, a commodity of rusty iron, a bay or two of hobnails, a few odd shoe-buckles, cashiered kail-pots, and fire-irons declared incapable of service, are quite sufficient to set him up. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The very thick leather sole was studded with metal hobnails, thus raising the marching foot too high off the ground to pick up painful gravel. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

The foot had a myriad of nails and screws on the bottom — better for traction on the ice than the hobnails in the men's winter boots — and the one-legged man, while not able to man-haul, had been more than able to keep up during their transfer to Terror Camp from the abandoned ship and then in the long haul south and now east. ❋ Simmons, Dan (2007)

Would a real rustical history of hobnails and eighteenpence a day be endurable? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Missouri Boot and Shoe offers free shipping for hobnails online. ❋ Unknown (2006)

# Steve Buchheiton 13 Sep 2006 at 12:16 pm hide all the hobnails. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Far from respecting the separateness of science's turf, creationists like nothing better than to trample their dirty hobnails all over it. ❋ Dawkins, Richard, 1941- (2006)

Soon there were hobnails clattering against the steel steps. ❋ Dahlquist, Gordon (2006)

Are we right in wearing the strange costumes we do, in choosing the path that pleases us athwart this rock and turf, in coming striding with unfumigated rucksacks and snow-wet hobnails into what is conceivably an extremely neat and orderly world? ❋ Herbert George (2006)

There was a noise of hobnails on the bricks in the bar, and Mrs. Hall had very reluctantly to leave the rest of his soliloquy. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

Joe [gingerly] pressed the king-sized hotel mattress with his index finger, [grimacing] as he felt it give easily; no doubt from years of couples' [hobnailing] upon it. ❋ Soarjubs (2013)

[Nigel] gave [Gerald] a proper [hobnailing] that night and now Gerald eats through a straw ❋ Dangermouse (2018)

John [poured] the hobnail slowly over food, [licking] his lips [menacingly]. ❋ Frankl (2004)

"A [comic strip] about [breast cancer]? That's just [hobnailing]!" ❋ Zla'od (2021)

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