hobnail

n.
1. nail used for shoeing horses上马掌用的钉子，马蹄钉。
△1H.IV.2.4.401 (361): “if there come a hot Juneand this civil buffeting hold,we shall buy maiden-heads as they buy hobnails,by the hundreds.” i.e.maidenheads will be cheaply obtained. (Given the heat of summer and the going on of civil war,maid-enheads will corrupt like stinking fish because soldiers rape and pillage in this time of disorder.)要是来一个炎热的夏天，而且这场内战还继续下去的话，我们就可以像人家买马蹄钉一样成百地买大闺女。
2. boot nail鞋钉。
△2H.VI.4.10.61 (58):“I beseechGod on my knees thou mayst be turned to hobnails.”i.e. melted down and recast as boot nails. 我就跪求上帝把你回炉打成鞋钉。