tocher

American  

[tokh-er] / ˈtɒx ər /

noun

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

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verb (used with object)

1. to provide with a dowry.

tocher British  

/ ˈtɒxər /

noun

1. a dowry

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verb

1. (tr) to give a dowry to

Etymology

Origin of tocher

1490–1500; < Scots Gaelic tochradh; compare MIr tochra payment made to the bride or bride's father by the groom

Example Sentences

Ye can tak Meg—an' your life as her tocher.'

From Border Ghost Stories by Pease, Howard

Yet, strange enough too, the Nabob had promised the man who should marry his daughter the weight of herself in fine Indian gold, weighed in a balance, as her tocher.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII by Wilson, John Mackay

Is not that enough tocher For a shoemaker’s daughter, A bonny sweet lass With a coal-black ee?

From The Only True Mother Goose Melodies Without Addition or Abridgement by Unknown

I aye kennt your fayther was weel conneckit, Marjorie, but lairge interests in the cen o' writers to the signet like Mac Smaill means a graun' fortune, a muckle tocher, lassie.

From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by Campbell, John

Then hey for a lass wi’ a tocher, Then hey for a lass wi’ a tocher; Then hey for a lass wi’ a tocher, The nice yellow guineas for me.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert