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Shoeing-horn   Listen
noun
Shoeing-horn, Shoehorn  n.  
1.
A curved piece of polished horn, wood, or metal used to facilitate the entrance of the foot into a shoe.
2.
Figuratively:
(a)
Anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium; by way of contempt.
(b)
Anything which draws on or allures; an inducement. (Low)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Shoeing-horn" Quotes from Famous Books



... ne'er ate yon apple! Yet Master Tremayne will have it that I did eat it mine own self. Had I so done, Adam might have whistled for a quarter. The blind, stumbling moles men are! Set a pearl and a pebble afore them, and my new shoes to an old shoeing-horn, but they shall pick up the pebble, and courtesy unto you for your grace. And set your mind on a lad that you do count to have more sense than the rest, and beshrew me if he show you not in fair colours ere the week be out that he is as great ...
— Clare Avery - A Story of the Spanish Armada • Emily Sarah Holt



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