▪ I. horse-courser1, -coursing1
see horse-corser, -corsing.
▪ II. horse-courser2
[See courser1.
(It appears first in Johnson, identified with horse-corser, of which it is put down as the primary sense, without quot.; but the sense is perh. only conjectural.)]
| 1755 Johnson, Horsecourser, one that runs horses, or keeps horses for the race. Hence in later Dicts. |