hobnailed

[hob-neyld]

adjective

1. furnished with hobnails.

2. rustic or loutish.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hobnailed¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; hobnail + -ed ³

Example Sentences

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.

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Occasionally, the hobnailed boots of East German soldiers, patrolling the street above, echoed overhead.

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“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.”

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Renovated, but with some of the original paving slabs that once echoed the hobnailed boots of Japan’s Imperial army.

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Out go the soldiers in tin hats, the bayonets, the haversacks and hobnailed ankle boots.

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