Mountaineering hobnailed boots tended to also have large hobnails fastened to the extreme edges of the soles and heels to grip on any small roughness on steeply sloping rock and on snow, particularly before crampons came into common use.
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"' Hobnailed boots "'( known in Scotland as " tackety boots " ) are boots with hobnails ( nails inserted into the soles of the boots ), usually installed in a regular pattern, over the sole.
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The straightforward, farcical approach brought to bear on this latest interpretation, which features opulent but too, too solid sets and costumes by John Lee Beatty and John David Ridge respectively, suggests someone stepping on a soap bubble in hobnailed boots.
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The third set of concluding observations in Autumn 2008 will indicate whether there is a need for a Children's Commissioner with'teeth and hobnailed boots'in England, to herald the 30th Anniversary of the International Year of the Child.
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He wrote that he could still feel " the hot and cold waves of feeling passing over me, " the hair rising on his neck at the sight of the storm troopers and the sounds of their hobnailed boots and roaring motorcycles.
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They could probably even get away with calling it Yankee Stadium, given the history of the Yankees'AAA farm team, the Newark Bears, playing downtown in Ruppert Stadium when the Yankees were tromping with hobnailed boots over the American League in the 30s and 40s.
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Sifting among the clues, the climber-sleuths have drawn upon old journals, letters and recovered relics _ a hobnailed boot, an oxygen cylinder, snow goggles, a frayed rope _ that look antiquated to climbers today, who venture forth costumed and equipped more like astronauts.
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Matthew Players he created what was to become one of his favourite characters John Joe Mahockey from Ballyslapdashamuckery an astute countryman or Culchie to use the Dublin expression, who wore a flat cap with an enormous peak, navy blue suit, white shirt, red tie and a large pair of brown hobnailed boots.
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He will be met in " hobnailed boots and rotting leather breeches and a stinking linen blouse, " leading a " lurching, groaning " ox-drawn cart northward through sparsely settled country, a route deliberately chosen to encounter people " less inclined to interfere with questions of any nature ."
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Both sides in the American Civil War issued them to their soldiers, and the U . S . Army issued hob-nailed brogans known as " trench boots " to U . S . soldiers during the First World War . Pair of hobnailed boots These replaced the 1904 Russet Service Shoe, a brogan of a construction unsuitable to trench warfare or field duty in general.
