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Hobnailed

adjective

Marked by the wearing of heavy boots studded with hobnails.

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"Hobnailed" Quotes from Famous Books

... know that the traces of a trail marked by flattened leaves might not be his trail? Once, on that little sheet of sand left by rain in the torrent's wake, you found the imprint of a hobnailed shoe such as the Hun hunters wear," she reminded him. "And there we first saw the flattened trail of last year's leaves—if indeed it ...

— In Secret • Robert W. Chambers

... "that until the death of our planet, our future life will be one of labour upon it, and that all those minds which aspire to truth, to unity, will meet there, and labour together." The muleteer's hobnailed shoes, which grated among the pebbles, could be heard very near them. The ...

— The Saint • Antonio Fogazzaro

... the road beyond the village and saw him in the distance dancing on an old Turk's bare feet with hobnailed boots, alternating this amusement with cuffs on the face. We sprinted along, and seeing a convenient little river wriggling along by the roadside, Jan caught him by the neck and the seat of his trousers, swung him round, ...

— The Luck of Thirteen - Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia • Jan Gordon

... hour the hillside was still a maze—a maze of bodies of men wandering they knew not whither, crossing and recrossing, circling, stopping and returning on their stumbles, slipping on smooth rock-faces, breaking shins on rough boulders, treading with hobnailed ...

— From Capetown to Ladysmith - An Unfinished Record of the South African War • G. W. Steevens

Words linked to "Hobnailed" : rural