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▪ I. tocher, n. Sc. and north. dial.|ˈtoxər|
Forms: 5–6 toquhir, -yr, 6 toquher, -eir, touchquhare, touchar, -er, towcher, (towher), tochar, 6–7 tochir, 7 tochare, tougher, 7–9 dial. towgher (9 togher), 6– tocher.
[a. Irish and OGael. tochar (mod.Gael. tochradh) assigned portion, dowry, in OIr. assignment, f. tochuirim I put to, I assign, f. cuirim I put.]
The marriage portion which a wife brings to her husband; dowry, dot.
1496Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 307 Giffen to Robert Lile, in his toquhyr of the Mertymes terme bipast jc markis. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) II. 194 And [Rolland] in the name of Touchquhare, sall have all thay landis. 1546Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 43 The said Lord Governour sall gif in tocher with his said dochter to the said Eirle and his airis the soume of twa thousand, thre hundreith, and thrette thre pundis vi s viii d. 1568Durham Depos. (Surtees) 86 The parties went..to hir frends, to demand towher. 1569Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) II. 314 note, He shall haue 1001..as towcher and mariadge money, whiche I gaue him with my dowghter Anne. c1614Sir W. Mure Dido & æneas ii. 192 Now Dido may be tyed to Trojane mate, And thow receave, in tougher, Carthage great. 1674Ray N.C. Words 50 A Towgher, a Dower or Dowry. Dial. Cumb. 1692Sc. Presbyter. Eloquence (1738) 149 Ye ken well enough..that Lads do not marry Lasses now, except they have a Tocher. 1796Burns Hey for a Lass i, Then hey, for a lass wi' a tocher; the nice yellow guineas for me. 1894Crockett Raiders 22 He married a lass from the hills who brought him no tocher, but..a strong dower of sense and good health.
b. attrib. and Comb., as tocher-fee, tocher-gear; tocher-band, a marriage settlement; tocher-good, property given as tocher or dower.
1792Burns Gallant Weaver iii, My daddie sign'd my *tocher-band, To gie the lad that has the land.
17..in Kinloch Anc. Sc. Ballads (1827) 85 ‘A clerk! a clerk!’ the king cried, ‘To sign her *tocher-fee’.
18..Cath. Jaffery iv. in Child Ballads vii. (1890) 225/1 For *tocher-gear he did not stand.
1538Aberdeen Regr. (1844) I. 158 To pay me the soume of thretty poundis..and that in *tochir gud for the mareage. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. i. 25 The mariage being dissolved, the tocher-gude returnes and perteins to the wyfe. 1822Scott Pirate v, Though I fall heir to her tocher-good, I am sorry for it.
▪ II. tocher, v. Sc. and north. dial.|ˈtoxər|
[f. prec.]
trans. To furnish with a tocher; to dower.
a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 125 He..tocharit hir with the Lordschipe of Ballvenie. 1781Burns Tarbolton Lasses ii, Well he can spare't, Braid Money to tocher them a', man. 1829Hogg Sheph. Cal. I. x. 304 It wad tocher a' our bonny lasses. 1878Cumberld. Gloss. s.v. Tokker, Togher, ‘He tokker't his dowter wi' twenty pund’.
Hence tochered |ˈtoxəd| ppl. a. (qualified by adverbs, as well-tochered).
1728Ramsay Give me a Lass with a Lump of Land iii, Well tocher'd lasses or joynter'd widows. 1816Scott Antiq. xii, Ye are a bonny young leddy, and a gude ane, and maybe a weel-tochered ane. 1881Blackw. Mag. Apr. 524 The fairly tochered spinster. |