Hobnail /(?)/

Hob·nail

Hobnail

n.
  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.

Phrases & Compounds
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.

Hobnail

v. t.
  1. To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.
    Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush.