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hobnailing

hobnailing is the present participle and gerund of hobnail.

Meaning of hobnail

Verb

hobnail (third-person singular simple present hobnails, present participle hobnailing, simple past and past participle hobnailed)

  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.1875, Tennyson, Queen Mary

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Questions about hobnailing

What is hobnailing the present participle and gerund of?
Hobnailing is the present participle and gerund of hobnail.

Words near hobnailing in the dictionary

  1. hobnail liver
  2. hobnail livers
  3. hobnailed
  4. hobnailer
  5. hobnailers
  6. hobnailing
  7. hobnails
  8. hobnob
  9. hobnobbed
  10. hobnobber
  11. hobnobbers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hobnailing (page history and authors); hobnail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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