tocher

From Scots tocher, from Middle Irish tochar.

tocher (plural tochers)

1. A dowry.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 121:

     And folk were to say […] old Guthrie had been fair spiteful to his sons, maybe Will would dispute his sister's tocher.

tocher (third-person singular simple present tochers, present participle tochering, simple past and past participle tochered)

1. (transitive) To supply with a dowry.

• Hector, Troche, hector, orchet, rochet, rotche, troche

From Middle Irish tochar ( > Scottish Gaelic tochradh).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoxər/

tocher (plural tochers)

1. dowry; trousseau
   • 1791, Robert Burns, ‘My Tocher's the Jewel’:

     Your proffer o' luve's an airle-penny, / My tocher's the bargain ye wad buy […].