hobnailed
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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 ● Dec. 23, 2025
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 ● Apr. 8, 2022
“They’re so loud! It’s like they’re wearing hobnailed boots.”
From The Guardian ● May 2, 2019
“We had antiquated equipment, armored cars that you could probably shoot arrows through. We wore uniforms made of bull’s wool and hobnailed boots.”
From Time ● Jul. 27, 2016
He wears hobnailed jackboots every second of every day, and the cadets joke that he kicked his way out of the womb with them.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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