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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A short nail with a thick head used to protect the soles of shoes or boots.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A short thick nail with a pointed tang and a large head, used for nailing the soles of heavy boots and shoes.
  2. n. A clownish person: used in contempt.
  3. To furnish or fasten with hobnails.
  4. To tread roughly upon, as with heavy hobnailed shoes.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A short nail with a thick head, typically used in boot soles.
  2. v. To fit with hobnails.
  3. v. transitive To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing horses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes.
  2. n. A clownish person; a rustic.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. supply with hobnails
  2. n. a short nail with a thick head; used to protect the soles of boots

Etymologies

  1. hob1, peg, projection (obsolete) + nail. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. rustic

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  1. furnish
  1. provide
  1. supply
  1. render
  1. nail

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  2. ankle-high
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  • hernesheir Hey bilby: some other uninspiring visual examples of bygone American glassware can be perused at depression glass, milk glass and vaseline glass. The white hobnail glass shown here isn't to my liking either. So-called Vaseline glass contains Uranium, which causes it to fluoresce under ultraviolet light. Nov 3, 2011

  • erinmckean The houses are now unshod. Thanks! Nov 3, 2011

  • bilby BTW the warty ceramics is fugly. Nov 1, 2011

  • bilby My house has footings. Nov 1, 2011

  • hernesheir Yet, one may readily purchase house slippers at any department store. Nov 1, 2011

  • Stephen Ferg I think that

    "A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes."

    should probably be

    "A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing horses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes."

    One shoes HORSES, not HOUSES. Nov 1, 2011

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