coshering

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coshering - 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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