shoeing-horn (English, noun)
expansion: shoeing-horn (plural shoeing-horns)
Senses:
glosses: A shoehorn.
tags: dated
glosses: Anything that facilitates a transaction; that which smooths the way or greases the wheels.
tags: obsolete
qualifier: Elizabethan English
glosses: Anything that induces or "draws on" thirst.
tags: UK
obsolete
glosses: A young man encouraged by a woman as a hanger-on to encourage the advances of more desirable suitors.
tags: obsolete
Forms:
form: shoeing-horns
tags: plural