Ireland. Also 7 cash-. [f. COSHER v.1 + -ER1.] One who coshers, or lives by coshering.
1634–5. Stat. Ireland 10–11 Chas. I., c. 16. An Act for the Suppressing of Cosherers and Idle Wanderers.
1672. Petty, Pol. Anat. (1691), 13. There are yet to spare, who are Casherers and Fait-neants, 220,000.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., III. xii. 155. Commissions were scattered profusely among idle cosherers who claimed to be descended from good Irish families.
1865. Times, 11 March, 8/6. A ‘cosherer’ is one who pretends to be an Irish gentleman, and will not work.
