(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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(obsolete) Anything that facilitates a transaction; that which smooths the way or greases the wheels.
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(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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