Cōsh'er-ing, n.

n. (O. Eng. Law.) A feudal prerogative or custom for lords to lie and feast themselves at their tenants' houses. Burrill.

Sometimes he contrived, in defiance of the law, to live by coshering, that is to say, by quartering himself on the old tenants 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.