hobnailed
[hob-neyld]
- furnished with hobnails.
- rustic or loutish.
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Origin of hobnailed
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The shadow of his hobnailed boots was enormous and coffin-like.
ChanceJoseph Conrad
The shadow of his hobnailed boots was enormous and coffinlike.
ChanceJoseph Conrad
I would have let them jump on my chest with their hobnailed boots first!
The Bill-ToppersAndre Castaigne
Do you suppose WE care for the opinion of that hobnailed lout of a Paris?
Roundabout PapersWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
In the silence a noise of hobnailed haste rose on the still air.
The Woman in BlackEdmund Clerihew Bentley