† ˈhorse-corser, -courser Obs.
Also 6 -coarser, -scorser, 7 -scourser, 9 -coser.
[See corser, scorser; also Skeat in Trans. Phil. Soc. (1888–9), where AF. cossour (1310), corsour (1372) broker:—L. cociatōr-em, is cited.]
A jobbing dealer in horses.
| 1552 Huloet, Horsecorser, whiche let horse to hyre, veterinarius. 1567 Thomas Ital. Gram., Cozzone, an horscoarser, or the rider that tameth wilde horses. 1576 Gascoigne Steele Gl. (Arb.) 79 When horsecorsers beguile no friends with Iades. 1585 Higins tr. Junius Nomencl. 514/1 Mango equorum, a horse scorser: he that buyeth horses, and putteth them away againe by chopping and changing. 1605 Nottingham Rec. IV. 277 Horssecorsers and diuers other that do buy and sell horsses. a 1613 Overbury A Wife (1638) 136 Which..were as strange a thing to doubt, as whether there be knavery in Horse-coursers. 1617 Minsheu Ductor, a horse Courser, or horse scourser..mango equorum. 1704 Dict. Rust. s.v. Horse, This manner of making a Horse to look Young, is called by Horse-coursers, Bishoping. 1801 Sporting Mag. XVIII. 101 Horse Coser, a dealer in horses, vulgarly and corruptly called horse-courser. 1808 Scott Marm. vi. xvi, Thou sworn horse-courser, hold thy peace. 1818 W. H. Scott Brit. Field Sports, No credit to the discernment of those practical Horse Coursers. |