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(), n.[1st hob + nail.] 1. A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes. 2. A clownish person; a rustic. Milton. Hobnail liver (Med.), a disease in which the liver is shrunken, hard, and covered with projections like hobnails; one of the forms of cirrhosis of the liver. Hob"nail° v. t.To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes. Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush. Tennyson. スポンサード リンク
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