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An amount paid by the parents of a bride to the groom and or his family.
dowry
trousseau
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.
tocher
gat the tocher
need no tocher