SHOEING'HORN, noun [shoe and horn.]
1. A horn used to facilitate the entrance of the foot onto a narrow shoe.
2. Any thing by which transaction is facilitated; any thing used as a medium; in contempt. [I have never heard this word in America.]
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.