Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furnished with hobnails.
- Wearing hobnailed shoes; hence, clumsy; countrified; rough.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective See with hobnails, as a shoe.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Describing something that has
hobnails .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by the wearing of heavy boots studded with hobnails
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Examples
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He was clad in faded overalls and black cotton shirt, with hobnailed brogans on his feet, and on his head a hat whose shapelessness and stains advertised the rough usage of wind and rain and sun and camp-smoke.
All Gold Canon 2010
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It was Bismarck who attempted to put all churches and universities in Prussia under his hobnailed boot.
Ken Blackwell: Will Obama Destroy Franciscan University of Steubenville? Ken Blackwell 2011
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He was clad in faded overalls and black cotton shirt, with hobnailed brogans on his feet, and on his head a hat whose shapelessness and stains advertised the rough usage of wind and rain and sun and camp-smoke.
All Gold Cañon 2010
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The Romans also made a hobnailed shoe and boot that lasted longer for those centurions travelling to invade other lands.
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It was Bismarck who attempted to put all churches and universities in Prussia under his hobnailed boot.
Ken Blackwell: Will Obama Destroy Franciscan University of Steubenville? Ken Blackwell 2011
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Markets set borrowing rates, voters turn out politicians who push them too far, and plans to land with hobnailed boots on profligate debtor nations founder on two facts.
Borrowers of Euroland are Proving Einstein's Theory of Insanity Right Irwin Stelzer 2010
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When I say that, I mean, "You win on some election nights, and on other election nights, people take your feelings and jump on them in hobnailed boots."
Obama's post-election speech, the draft version Alexandra Petri 2010
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It was Bismarck who attempted to put all churches and universities in Prussia under his hobnailed boot.
Ken Blackwell: Will Obama Destroy Franciscan University of Steubenville? Ken Blackwell 2011
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While most of them are careful to maintain a little patch of agnostic "to be sure" territory, hectoring heretics like PZ Myers get their jollies by stomping all over sacred ground in the hobnailed boots of rationality.
Clay Farris Naff: How Science Can Solve the Puzzle of God 2010
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That would be what those guys in the shiny knee-high hobnailed boots do.
Lead Coleman Lawyer: Franken Will Have Bigger Lead After Trial, Then Come Appeals 2010
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