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† ˈhorse-corser, -courser Obs.
Also 6 -coarser, -scorser, 7 -scourser, 9 -coser.
[See corser, scorser; also Skeat in Trans. Phil. Soc. (1888–9), where AF. cossour (1310), corsour (1372) broker:—L. cociatōr-em, is cited.]
A jobbing dealer in horses.
1552Huloet, Horsecorser, whiche let horse to hyre, veterinarius. 1567Thomas Ital. Gram., Cozzone, an horscoarser, or the rider that tameth wilde horses. 1576Gascoigne Steele Gl. (Arb.) 79 When horsecorsers beguile no friends with Iades. 1585Higins tr. Junius Nomencl. 514/1 Mango equorum, a horse scorser: he that buyeth horses, and putteth them away againe by chopping and changing. 1605Nottingham Rec. IV. 277 Horssecorsers and diuers other that do buy and sell horsses. a1613Overbury A Wife (1638) 136 Which..were as strange a thing to doubt, as whether there be knavery in Horse-coursers. 1617Minsheu Ductor, a horse Courser, or horse scourser..mango equorum. 1704Dict. Rust. s.v. Horse, This manner of making a Horse to look Young, is called by Horse-coursers, Bishoping. 1801Sporting Mag. XVIII. 101 Horse Coser, a dealer in horses, vulgarly and corruptly called horse-courser. 1808Scott Marm. vi. xvi, Thou sworn horse-courser, hold thy peace. 1818W. H. Scott Brit. Field Sports, No credit to the discernment of those practical Horse Coursers. |