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单词 tocher
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tochern.

Brit. /ˈtəʊxə/, /ˈtəʊkə/, U.S. /ˈtoʊkər/, /ˈtoʊxər/, Scottish English /ˈtoxər/
Forms: Middle English–1500s toquhir, toquhyr, 1500s toquher, toquheir, touchquhare, touchar, toucher, towcher, ( towher), tochar, 1500s–1600s tochir, 1600s tochare, tougher, 1600s–1800s dialect towgher (1800s togher), 1500s– tocher.
Etymology: < Irish and Old Gaelic tochar (modern Gaelic tochradh) assigned portion, dowry, in Old Irish assignment, < tochuirim I put to, I assign, < cuirim I put.
Scottish and northern dialect.
The marriage portion which a wife brings to her husband; dowry, dot.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > gifts and payments > [noun] > dowry
moryeveOE
marriagea1325
dowing1382
dowerc1386
dowrya1400
marriage money1454
marriage good1478
tocher1496
dote1509
jointurea1513
portion1513
endowry1523
tocher-good1538
dowagea1552
marriage dowrya1616
wedding-dowera1616
marriage portion1616
portion money1625
fortune1702
dot1822
1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 307 Giffen to Robert Lile, in his toquhyr of the Mertymes terme bipast jc markis.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. x. xxii. f. 153/2 And [Rolland] in ye name of touchquhare sall haue al yai landis.
1546 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. 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.
1568 in J. Raine Depositions Courts Durham (1845) 86 The parties went..to hir frends, to demand towher.
1569 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. ii. 314 (note) He shall haue 1001..as towcher and mariadge money, whiche I gaue him with my dowghter Anne.
c1614 W. Mure tr. Virgil Dido & Æneas ii. in Wks. (1898) I. 192 Now Dido may be tyed to Trojane mate, And thow receave, in tougher, Carthage great.
1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 50 A Towgher, a Dower or Dowry. Dial. Cumb.
1693 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence (ed. 2) Postscr. 102 Ye ken well enough..that Lads does not marry Lasses now, except they have a Tocher.
1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 808 Then hey, for a lass wi' a tocher; the nice yellow guineas for me.
1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders 22 He married a lass from the hills who brought him no tocher, but..a strong dower of sense and good health.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
tocher-fee n.
ΚΠ
17.. in Kinloch Anc. Sc. Ballads (1827) 85 ‘A clerk! a clerk!’ the king cried, ‘To sign her tocher-fee’.
tocher-gear n.
ΚΠ
18.. Cath. Jaffery iv, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1890) IV. vii. 225/1 For tocher-gear he did not stand.
C2.
tocher-band n. a marriage settlement.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > gifts and payments > [noun] > marriage settlement
marriage contract1592
marriage agreement?c1663
marriage articlesa1668
marriage deed1678
marriage settlement1678
tocher-band1792
contract1815
ketubah1841
1792 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 649 My daddie sign'd my tocher-band To gie the lad that has the land.
tocher-good n. property given as tocher or dower.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > gifts and payments > [noun] > dowry
moryeveOE
marriagea1325
dowing1382
dowerc1386
dowrya1400
marriage money1454
marriage good1478
tocher1496
dote1509
jointurea1513
portion1513
endowry1523
tocher-good1538
dowagea1552
marriage dowrya1616
wedding-dowera1616
marriage portion1616
portion money1625
fortune1702
dot1822
1538 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 158 To pay me the soume of thretty poundis..and that in tochir gud for the mareage.
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem i. 25 The mariage being dissolved, the tocher-gude returnes and perteins to the wyfe.
1821 W. Scott Pirate I. v. 106 Though I fall heir to her tocher-good, I am sorry for it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

tocherv.

Brit. /ˈtəʊxə/, /ˈtəʊkə/, U.S. /ˈtoʊkər/, /ˈtoʊxər/, Scottish English /ˈtoxər/
Etymology: < tocher n.
Scottish and northern dialect.
transitive. To furnish with a tocher; to dower.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > gifts and payments > [verb (transitive)] > give as dowry > give dowry to
endow1528–30
dote1560
tochera1578
dowry1588
endower1606
dowera1616
indotate1647
portion1836
fortune1838
dot1887
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 125 He..tocharit hir with the Lordschipe of Ballvenie.
a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 54 Weel he can spare't, Braid money to tocher them a', man.
1829 J. Hogg Shepherd's Cal. I. x. 304 It wad tocher a' our bonny lasses.
1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) at Tokker, Togher ‘He tokker't his dowter wi' twenty pund’.

Derivatives

tochered adj. /ˈtoxəd/ (qualified by adverbs as well-tochered).
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > gifts and payments > [adjective] > of or relating to dowry > possessing a dowry
portioned1632
tochered1728
dowereda1756
well-dowered1772
1728 A. Ramsay Give me a Lass with a Lump of Land iii Well tocher'd lasses or joynter'd widows.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xii. 267 Ye are a bonny young leddy, and a gude ane, and maybe a weel-tochered ane.
1881 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 524 The fairly tochered spinster.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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