Lexicographical Neighbors of Scorser
Literary usage of Scorser
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"... a horse scorser; he that buyeth horses, and putteth them away again by chopping
and changing." Nomencl., p. 514, a. ..."
2. A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by Anthony Lawson Mayhew, Walter William Skeat (1888)
"... corser, MD, 83 (sv horse) ; scorser, ND. Court, sb. court, enclosure, yard,
PP, MD; curt, S; kurt, S; ..."
3. The Boke Named The Gouernour by Thomas Elyot (1883)
"An horse scorser : he that buyeth horses and putteth them away againe by chopping
and changing."— P. 514, ed. 1585. In process of time the derivation of the ..."
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