[f. CLINKER sb.3] trans. To secure or strengthen with clinkers. Clinkered ppl. a. (shoes) studded with nails, ironed.
1824. Heber, Narrative (1828), I. 169. A number of canoes … many of them … like those which I have lately seen, clinkered.
1858. E. Waugh, Chirrup, Young Chirrup donn’d his clinker’t shoon.
Mod. Newspaper. [Rustics] trampling with their clinkered boots over delicate marble slabs.
