Definitionadj. marked by the wearing of heavy boots studded with hobnails
Last update: September 20, 2015
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The soldier's boot (caliga, from which the emperor Gaius derived his nickname, Caligula) was in reality a heavy hobnailed sandal with a number of straps wound round the ankle and lower leg. [Please select]
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He remembered the sullen, stolid faces, the rough, hobnailed shoes, the cropped heads. [Please select]
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Rand suspected that he was mentally kicking himself with hobnailed boots for his premature act. [Please select]
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He wears a three-cornered hat, a large, white leather apron, hobnailed shoes and a stout stick. [Please select]
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The condition of the bones showed they had not been long deposited; in fact, with one skeleton were hobnailed leather shoes, with the bones of the feet still in them. [Please select]
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"Yes, with rage, when it dawned on him that the rump of an officer and nobleman had been bust in by the hobnailed socks of a poor private." [Please select]
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