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Definition of Hobnailed
1. Adjective. Marked by the wearing of heavy boots studded with hobnails. "Hobnailed laborers"
Definition of Hobnailed
1. a. See with hobnails, as a shoe.
Definition of Hobnailed
1. Adjective. Describing something that has hobnails. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hobnailed
1. hobnail [v] - See also: hobnail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hobnailed
Literary usage of Hobnailed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A treatise on the theory and practice of medicine by John Syer Bristowe (1880)
"(hobnailed or Drunkards Liver.) Causation.—Atrophic cirrhosis is almost ...
The proper hepatic tissue of the hobnailed liver may present its normal hue; ..."
2. Clinical Journal (1897)
"... in all cases where this pericellular cirrhosis is well marked the liver tends
to be enlarged—hypertrophic,—or if not enlarged is not found hobnailed. ..."
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