What does shoe-horn mean?

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shoe-horn

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.89 in modern English

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shoe-horns (plural) shoe-horns (present, singular) shoe-horning (participle, present) shoe-horned (participle, past) shoe-horned (past)

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