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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
COSHERING
COSHERING
Cosh
"
er
*
ing,
n. (
Old
Law
)
Defn: 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.
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