What is "shoeing-horn"

Shoehorn \Shoe"horn`\, Shoeing-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:

   1. Anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium; -- by way of contempt.
      --Spectator.

   2. Anything which draws on or allures; an inducement. [Low]
      --Beau. & Fl.

n. 1 shoehorn 2 (context obsolete English) often used in Elizabethan English to mean anything that would induce or "draw on" thirst