† horse-corsinghorse-coursingn.
Obsolete.
Horse-jobbing. Applied also to dishonest modes of ‘raising the wind’ by means of a horse: see context of quot. 1602.
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society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > [noun]
trafficking1570
traffic1583
horse-corsing1602
mongering1846
pinhooking1962
1602 S. Rowlands Greenes Ghost 14 There is a certain kind of cosonage called horse coursing.
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice viii. 2 This deceit or impostume vpon the face of Horsemanshippe which wee call Horse-corsing.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Maquignonnage, deceitfull brokage..also the trade of hors~scoursing.
1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 105 Wil not set forth the art of Hors-coursing.
1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 192 If they catch him horse-coursing he's noozed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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- whiles
- whiles thou might turn thy hand about
- well-tossed
- well-traded
- well-trained
- well-traveled
- well-travelled
- well-treated
- well-tricked
- well-tricked-out
- well-tried
- well-trimmed
- well-trod
- well-trodden
- well-trussed
- well-trussed-together
- well-trussed-up
- well-trusted
- well-tuned
- well-turned
- well-turned-out
- well-tutored
- well-twisted
- well-understood