hobnailed
AmericanEtymology
Origin of hobnailed
Example Sentences
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Mystery surrounds the appearance of hundreds of Victorian hobnailed shoes which have washed ashore on a beach.
From BBC
Mallory and Irvine, wearing wool and gabardine, hobnailed leather boots and homemade oxygen sets, disappeared into a swirling cloud on that fateful day, never to be seen alive again.
From Salon
Occasionally, the hobnailed boots of East German soldiers, patrolling the street above, echoed overhead.
From Literature
“In 1975, the whole British penal system was based on brutality and ignorance. They only employed ex-squaddies as screws: hobnailed boots, bulging muscles with tattoos. Everything was force.”
From The Guardian
Renovated, but with some of the original paving slabs that once echoed the hobnailed boots of Japan’s Imperial army.
From Salon
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