[obs. f. COUCHER.] A kind of dog that couches or lies low.

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14[?].  Seven Deadly Sins, 76, in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems, 217. He … kepith me low lyke a cochoure.

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1601.  F. Tate, Househ. Ord. Edw. II., § 59 (1876), 45. A partringer who shal have in his custody two doges cochours . ij faucons for partriges.

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