shoeing-horn
(obsolete) Anything that facilitates a transaction; that which smooths the way or greases the wheels.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026UK
(obsolete) Anything that facilitates a transaction; that which smooths the way or greases the wheels.
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#2·Apr 27, 2026UK
(dated) A shoehorn.
...some of "the general rules and inventions for drinking, as good as printed precepts or statutes by act of parliament, that go from drunkard to drunkard; as... to have some shoeing-horn to pull on your wine, as a rasher on the coals or…
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#3·Apr 27, 2026UK
(UK, obsolete, Elizabethan English) Anything that induces or "draws on" thirst.
...some of "the general rules and inventions for drinking, as good as printed precepts or statutes by act of parliament, that go from drunkard to drunkard; as... to have some shoeing-horn to pull on your wine, as a rasher on the coals or…
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