shoeing-horn
Noun

shoeing-horn

  1. (dated) A shoehorn.
  2. (obsolete) Anything that facilitates a transaction; that which smooths the way or greases the wheels.
  3. (UK, obsolete, Elizabethan English) Anything that induces or "draws on" thirst.
  4. (obsolete) A young man encouraged by a women as a hanger-on to encourage the advances of more desirable suitors.



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