Definition of "hobnailed" [hob•nailed]

• Describing something that has hobnails. (adjective)

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• "Markets set borrowing rates, voters turn out politicians who push them too far, and plans to land with hobnailed boots on profligate debtor nations founder on two facts."
• "He was clad in faded overalls and black cotton shirt, with hobnailed brogans on his feet, and on his head a hat whose shapelessness and stains advertised the rough usage of wind and rain and sun and camp-smoke."
• "When I say that, I mean, "You win on some election nights, and on other election nights, people take your feelings and jump on them in hobnailed boots.""