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Definition of Toshers
1. tosher [n] - See also: tosher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toshers
Literary usage of Toshers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Literature of Roguery by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1907)
"Here too are such water-side sneaks as the toshers who hunt copper, and the
mud-larks who dally with coal and rope, as well as stealers of animals, ..."
2. The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten (1874)
"toshers, men who steal copper from ships' bottoms in the Thames. TOSS, a measure
of sprats.—Billingsgate. Tot-up, to add together,—as columns of figures, ..."
3. The Criminal Prisons of London, and Scenes of Prison Life by Henry Mayhew, John Binny (1862)
"... who make off with the contents of tills; " bluey-hunters," who take lead from
the tops of houses ; " toshers," who purloin copper from ships and along ..."
4. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1905)
"toshers, Tosses, ol Corn, 127. . Tower of London, 176. Town, Failsworth, 312,
313,* 315, 328*-3l.* - Hall, Failsworth, 184, 332, 345. ..."
5. London Society edited by James Hogg, Florence Marryat (1879)
"Underneath this window ran a ledge, on which were placed four basins of galvanised
iron, and beneath which were four corresponding zinc cans, or ' toshers,' ..."
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