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Definition of Tosher
1. Noun. One who scavenges for valuable items in sewers, especially in London during the Victorian period. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tosher
1. a non-collegiate student [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tosher
Literary usage of Tosher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery: Before the Right by Great Britain Court of Chancery, James Wigram, James Lewis Knight Bruce, George James Turner, William Page Wood Hatherley (1843)
"Hottis(b); tosher v. Small(c); 1 Sugd. Vend. §• Pur. p. 369, 370, ed. 9.
VICE-CHANCELLOR :— Judgment. The purchaser, when he is sued for the specific ..."
2. Our Sentimental Garden by Agnes Castle, Egerton Castle (1914)
"Mrs. tosher here says she's never seen any one like me. ... Mrs. tosher—a large,
jovial, untidy female with a shrunken " blue cotton " inadequately fastened ..."
3. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"tosher (nautical), a man who steals copper sheathing from ships' bottoms, or from
dockyard stores. Probably from tasi, a copper basin in Turkish-Persian. ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, During by William B. Drury, Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, Robert R. Warren, Ireland High Court of Chancery (1843)
"tosher IK an authority, I should feel great difficulty in saying, that property,
which never had been acquired by a Roman Catholic body, and which they ..."
5. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"She asked whether she might have leave to visit Mrs. tosher, or to walk beyond
the court and the garden wall. ..."
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