tocher

/tokh-er/US // ˈtɒx ər //UK // (ˈtɒxər) Scot //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a dowry; marriage settlement given to the groom by the bride or her family.

v.有主动词 verb

The man wha sits on the silk goun-tail o' the wife wha's tocher bought it, never sits easy.
He's willin' to take you with him, Nelly, and he shows his good blood when he holds that a Carnegie needs no tocher.
They're too poor to keep us; an' wull be sure to sell us somewhere, an' to somebody that ha'e got the tocher to gie for us.
Highland thieves,' said Jean; 'and 'tis for what tocher they may force from you, James, not for her face.'
And a poor tocher he gets wi her, said the Leddy;—wounds and bruises, and putrefying sores, to make up a pack for beggary.