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 hymself the Kyngs Corser, rideth and gothe to … markeitis.
1519. 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.
