hobnail

noun

1. A short nail with a thick head, typically used in boot soles.
2. (obsolete)A 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 …”

verb

1. To fit with hobnails.

   “a machine for the hobnailing of shoes”

2. (archaic, transitive)To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.

   “Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush.”