Brewer's: Coyne and Livery

Food and entertainment for soldiers, and forage for their horses, exacted by an army from the people whose lands they passed through, or from towns where they rested on their march.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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