Roleset shoehorn.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "put into a container with some difficulty":

Roles:

Arg0:putter


Arg1:thing put


Arg2:put in, container

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: passive form: full


usually passive? (-)
Accordingly, the hidebound traditionalist reconstructed hypothetical organisms from the Burgess fossils in such a way that they could be shoehorned [*-1] into familiar categories.
ArgM-MOD:	could
REL:	shoehorned
Arg1:	[*-1] -> they
Arg2-into:	familiar categories

A fascinating word; probably not one person in ten still living has even seen a shoehorn and yet we all still know instinctively what this verb means.