prospect vs shoehorn

prospect

noun
  • A potential client or customer. 

  • Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect. 

  • A hope; a hopeful. 

  • The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation. 

  • A position affording a fine view; a lookout. 

  • The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook. 

  • A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape. 

  • Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team. 

  • The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable. 

  • The façade of an organ. 

verb
  • To search, as for gold. 

  • To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location. 

shoehorn

noun
  • Anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium. 

  • A smooth tool that assists in putting the foot into a shoe, by sliding the heel in after the toe is in place. This reduces discomfort and damage to the back of the shoe. By slipping it into the back of the shoe behind the heel, the user prevents the heel from squashing down the back of the shoe and causing difficulty; instead the heel slides down the smooth shoehorn, which then comes out easily once the foot is in place. 

verb
  • To use a shoehorn. 

  • To force (something) into (a tight space); to squeeze (something) into (a schedule, etc); to exert great effort to insert or include (something); to include (something) despite potent reasons not to. 

  • To force some current event into alignment with some (usually unconnected) agenda, especially when it is fallacious. 

How often have the words prospect and shoehorn occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )