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Scho-horn, Schone-horne, n. Also: shoe-; schune-. [S(c)ho n. (pl. schone) and Horn n.1 Cf. 19th c. Eng. shoe-horn in this sense (1874).] A shoe-horn.(a) 1597 Bk. Rates 6.
Scho hornis(b) 1575 Edinb. Test. III 328b.
Foure dosane of schone hornes 1582 Ib. X 289.
Ane schone horne of irne price iiij d. 1589 Edinb. B. Rec. IV 540.
Ane schone horne, 30 d. 1607 Edinb. Test. XLIII 154.
Four irne schone horneis at iij s. iiij d. the pece 1623 Ib. LII 72.
Thrie dussin schone hornes
b. fig. A person or thing used as a tool by others for their own ends. 1630 Misc. Hist. Soc. II 255.
Sone, cum not in such termis, for … I fear that if more be offered it will be takin. Be warie ye be no schunehorne [ed. schure-] 1656 Johnston Diary III 47.
The dissimulation of his son making the Covenant but a shoehorn to his awen ends
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