Shoeing-horn, a horn used to facilitate the entrance of the foot into a narrow shoe; emblem of one who is a subservient tool to the caprices of another: “a thrifty s. in a chain, hanging at his brother's leg,” Troil. V, 1, 61 (alluding, at the same time, to the cuckoldom of Menelaus).
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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