hobnail

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

這個字我們還沒有寫成教學內容。以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,方便你先看懂它的意思。

hobnailnoun

  • 1

    A short nail with a thick head, typically used in boot soles.

  • 2

    obsoleteA yokel; a rustic.

    • Next, the word Politician is not us'd to his maw, and therupon he plays the most notorious hobbihors, jesting and frisking in the luxury of his non-sense with such poor fetches to cog a laughter from us, that no antic hobnaile at a Morris, but is more hansomly facetious.
    • There lay Tom; hobnail Tom! a bacon-munching, reckless, beer-swilling animal! and yet a man …

hobnailverb

  • 1

    To fit with hobnails.

    • a machine for the hobnailing of shoes
  • 2

    archaicTo tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.

    • Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。