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Webster 1913 Edition
Coshering
Cosh′er-ing
,Noun.
(Old Law)
A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant’s house.
Burrill.
Sometimes he contrived, in deflance of the law, to live by
coshering
, that is to say, by quartering himself on the old tentants of his family, who, wretched as was their own condition, could not refuse a portion of their pittance to one whom they still regarded as their rightful lord. Macaulay.
Definition 2024
coshering
coshering
English
Verb
coshering
- present participle of cosher
Noun
coshering (plural cosherings)
- The levying of a cosher, or tribute.