An amount paid by the parents of a bride to the groom and or his family.
1 And as soon as they gat the tocher , he's off wi' the lassie.
2 And she has nae tocher or as good as nane.
3 Heard ye ever the like of a tocher , man?
4 I dinna mind the leddy's name; but there's tocher wi' lass o' his I'll warrant.
5 Wi' havins and tocher sae sma'!
6 The cruel man threw her away from him, just as if her tocher had been the weight of herself in copper, instead of gold.
7 Marry, her affection is something of a tenacious character, and would be loth to unloose its hold, either upon the wench or her tocher .
8 Now, had you a tocher like that, it would be a gey business, I think,-fourteenpotato-stonesat the very least, I would say, eh?
9 At the age of 23 he married his first wife, Barbara Montgomerie, an Irvine lass, with a " tocher " of 250L.
10 I wonder whar their tochers are to come frae?
11 The cluster analyses were based on the unweighted pair-group method using arithmetic averages and Tocher method.
12 Community Development worker Naomi Tocher met with these women to hear what they needed most to help with refugee resettlement.
13 Olivia Tocher is an Auckland teenager who, after years struggling with dyslexia and ADD, has moved to Vancouver to attend an Arrowsmith school.
14 "A tocher should not be all on one side," said he, "and I know the gentleman would be glad to have you--
15 "He's willin' to take you with him, Nelly, and he shows his good blood when he holds that a Carnegie needs no tocher . "
16 And as soon as they gat the tocher , he's off wi' the lassie.
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