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

adjective. Having or decorated with a raised pattern of bumps resembling such nails.

noun. A short thick nail with a pointed tang and a large head, used for nailing the soles of heavy boots and shoes.

noun. A clownish person: used in contempt.

To furnish or fasten with hobnails.

To tread roughly upon, as with heavy hobnailed shoes.

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

noun. A clownish person; a rustic.

noun. a disease in which the liver is shrunken, hard, and covered with projections like hobnails; one of the forms of cirrhosis of the liver.

noun. A short nail with a thick head, typically used in boot soles.

verb. To fit with hobnails.

verb. To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.

verb. supply with hobnails

noun. a short nail with a thick head; used to protect the soles of boots