\Cosh"er*ing\, n. (Old Law)
A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to
lodging and food at his tenant's house. --Burrill.
      Sometimes he contrived, in deflance of the law, to live
      by coshering, that is to say, by quartering himself on
      the old tentants of his family, who, wretched as was
      their own condition, could not refuse a portion of
      their pittance to one whom they still regarded as their
      rightful lord.                           --Macaulay.