shoeing-horn

== English == === Noun === shoeing-horn (plural shoeing-horns) (dated) A shoehorn. (obsolete) Anything that facilitates a transaction; that which smooths the way or greases the wheels. (UK, obsolete, Elizabethan English) Anything that induces or "draws on" thirst. (obsolete) A young man encouraged by a woman as a hanger-on to encourage the advances of more desirable suitors. === References === 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes === Anagrams === shoe-horning, shoehorning