hobnail in English

noun
1
a short heavy-headed nail used to reinforce the soles of boots.
When Douglas Hadow's boots were examined, it was found that the hobnails on their soles were worn almost smooth.

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1. Favorite Add to Vintage Fenton Round 8” Hobnail Milk Glass Bowl with Crimped Edge KandMVintageGlass

2. It is predominantly composed of irregularly Anastomosing sinusoidal-like spaces lined by endothelial cells with minimal atypia, a frequently hobnail morphology, and minimally invasive margins.

3. The Devil he blew on a Brandered soul and laid it aside to cool:— "Do ye think I would waste my good pit-coal on the hide of a brain-sick fool? "I see no worth in the hobnail mirth or the jolthead jest ye did "That I should waken my gentlemen that are sleeping three on a grid." Then Tomlinson looked back and forth, and there was little grace