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▪ I. coshering, vbl. n. Ireland.|ˈkɒʃərɪŋ|
Also 7 cochering.
[f. cosher v.1 + -ing1.]
†1. Feasting. Obs. rare.
1577Stanyhurst Descr. Irel. in Holinshed VI. 67 Their noble men, and noble mens tenants, now and then make a set feast, which they call coshering, wherto flocke all their reteiners, whom they name followers..In their coshering they sit on straw, they are serued on straw.
2. The practice or custom, claimed as a right by Irish chiefs, of quartering themselves upon their dependants or tenants: see coshery 2.
1571Campion Hist. Irel. ii. viii. (1633) 102 The Irish imposition of Coyne, Livery..cosherings, bonnaght, and such like. 1605T. Ryvers Vicar's Plea (1620) 1 The lawes are executed in every place alike, cocherings are reduced to chiefe-rents. 1612Davies Why Ireland, etc. (1747) 169 Irish exactions;—namely cosherings; which were visitations and progresses made by the lord and his followers among his tenants; wherein he did eat them out of house and home. 1778Phil. Surv. S. Irel. 44. 1848 Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 130 Sometimes he contrived, in defiance of the law, to live by coshering, that is to say, by quartering himself on the old tenants of his family.
▪ II. ˈcoshering, ppl. a.
[f. cosher v.1 + -ing2.]
That ‘coshers’ or lives upon the industry of others.
1727C. Threlkeld Stirpes Hibern. C vij, Dodder..quits the root, and like a coshering parasite lives upon another's trencher. 1839Blackw. Mag. XLV. 180 A herd of squandering, coshering, wandering blackguards. 1882Goldw. Smith in 19th Cent. July 6 Some hereditary despot, the representative of their old coshering chiefs. |