Hob"nail`, v. t. To tread down
roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.
Your rights and charters hobnailed into
slush.
Tennyson.Hob"nail` (?), 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.