Word Meanings - HOBNAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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 , a disease in which the liver is shrunken, hard, and covered with projections

Additional info about word: HOBNAIL

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

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• HEADLAND
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• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
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  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
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• HEADNOTE
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• LIVERWORT
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  One who polishes shoes.
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