horse-couper

My father, rest his saul, was a horse-couper, and used to say he never was cheated in a naig in his life, saving by a west-country whig frae

The Monastery 2008

I was bred a horse-couper, sir; and if I might live to see you at

Waverley 2004

It is rather too much that ditties still redolent of ardent spirits, and distinctly traceable in their authorship to a drunken horse-couper in

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various

When Catriona returned, the design became if possible more obvious; and she showed off the girl's advantages like a horse-couper with a horse.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

I was bred a horse-couper, sir; and if I might live to see you at Whitson-tryst, or at Stagshawbank, or the winter fair at Hawick, and ye wanted a spanker that would lead the field, I'se be caution I would serve ye easy; for Jamie Jinker was ne'er the lad to impose upon a gentleman.

The Waverley 1877

“Weel,” said the catechumen, “he was just like Joe Simson the horse-couper.”

Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874

When Catriona returned the design became if possible more obvious, and she showed off the girl's advantages like a horse-couper with a horse.

David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

When Catriona returned, the design became if possible more obvious; and she showed off the girl's advantages like a horse-couper with a horse.

Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Tammie's debosh and my own, besides the trifle of threepence to the round - shouldered old horse-couper with the slouched japan beaver hat.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

This beats the round-shouldered horse-couper with the Japan hat, skinning his reeking horse, all to sticks; and so I again fell into a gloomy sort of a musing; when, just as we came opposite the Duke's gate, with the deers on each side of it, two men rushed out upon us, and one of them seized

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824