Category:Shoehorn

Shoe"horn`, shoe"ing-horn`, n.

1. A curved piece of polished horn, wood, or metal used to facilitate The entrance of the foot into a shoe.

2. Figuratively: (a) anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium; -- by Way of contempt. Spectator. (b) anything which draws on or allures; an inducement. [low] beau & Fl.