† corsercoursern.
Obsolete.
A jobber; esp. a horse-dealer, a horse-couper. Obsolete except in horse-corser n.
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romonger1222
horse-mongera1400
cosser14..
corser?c1430
horse-corser1552
jockey1640
horse-coper1681
horse-jockey1744
horse-dealer1761
macquignon1798
horse-trader1811
coper1825
horse-cadger1886
?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 172 Þei ben corseris..& bien schep & neet & sellen hem for wynnynge.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) vi. l. 370 Lik a corsour makth coltis that be wilde With spore & whippe to be tame and mylde.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 94 Corsoure of horse, mango.
?1449 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) V. 154/1 Oon William Gerveis, by the coloure of a patente..cleping hymself the Kyngs Corser, rideth and gothe to..markeitis.
1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxx. f. 251v Corsers of horses, by false menys, make them loke fresshe and fatte.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxviv A corser is he that byeth all ryden horses and selleth them agayne.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 285 The coursers of horsses do many times beguil the simpler sort of buyers, by lying and deceiptful affirmation.
a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Captaine v. i, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ii2v/1 I am no Bawd, nor cheater, nor a courser Of broken-winded women.
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