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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Coshering \Cosh"er*ing\, n. (Old Law)
A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to
lodging and food at his tenant's house. --Burrill.
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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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