† corser, courser Obs.
[f. corse v. + -er.]
A jobber; esp. a horse-dealer, a horse-couper. Obs. exc. in horse-corser.
| c 1380 Wyclif Wks. (1880) 172 Þei ben corseris..and bien schep and neet and sellen hem for wynnynge. c 1430 Lydg. Bochas vi. i. (1554) 145 a, Like a coursour make coultes that be wilde, With spore and whip, to be tame and mild. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 94 Corsowre of horse, mango. 1449 Petit. 27 Hen. VI, in Rolls Parl. V. 154/1 Oon William Gerveis, by the coloure of a patente..cleping hym⁓self the Kyngs Corser, rideth and gothe to..markeitis. 1519 W. Horman Vulg. 251 b, Corsers of horses..by false menys, make them loke fresshe and fatte. 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §120 A corser is he, that byeth all rydden horses, and selleth them agayne. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 224 The coursers of horses do many times beguile the simpler sort of buyers by lying and deceitful affirmation. 1613 Beaum. & Fl. Captain v. i, I am no bawd, nor cheater, nor a courser Of broken-winded women. |