What is to tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes. Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush. Tennyson called?
hobnail — To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes. Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush. Tennyson. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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