The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Coshering \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.
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         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.
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