shoehorn
shoehorn.01 - put into a container with some difficulty
SHOEHORN-V NOTES: No Verbnet entry. A fascinating word; probably not one person in ten still living haseven seen a shoehorn and yet we all still know instinctively what thisverb means. (from shoehorn.01-v)Aliases:
shoehorn (v.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: putter
ARG1-PPT: thing put
ARG2-GOL: put in, container
ARG1-PPT: thing put
ARG2-GOL: put in, container
usually passive?
Accordingly , the hidebound traditionalist reconstructed hypothetical organisms from the Burgess fossils in such a way that
theyARG1
couldARGM-MOD
be shoehornedrel
into familiar categoriesARG2
.