Illustration: Strawberry cutting, so often confused with hobnail cutting; much used from 1780.
The hobnail heel-and-sole pattern is the correct article for use in swift-running water.
The hobnail recommended above all others is the common, cheap soft-iron hobnail with corrugated head; carry a package in your tackle box.
On this day the main street, usually in a state of ancle-deep mud six months in the year, was churned and pounded into an almost knee-deep state, by four or five hundred hobnail shoes in search of amusement.
On the surface it exhibits a knobbed or nodular aspect (hobnail liver), and these knobs present through the capsule a yellow appearance.
It is also called in England gin-drinker's liver, hobnail liver.
In the bottom of the valley, Shorty identified LeMoyne's tracks by a peculiar hobnail which LeMoyne used in his shoes.
Tom's Chance for Adventure Comes Unexpectedly, Wearing Hobnail Shoes and Carrying a Rope 189 XVI.
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