Definitions for tochers

tochers toch·er

Spelling: [tokh-er]
IPA: /ˈtɒx ər/

Tochers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 267 anagrams from letters in tochers (cehorst).

Definitions for tochers

noun

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

verb (used with object)

  1. to provide with a dowry.

Origin of tochers

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

Examples for tochers

He's willin' to take you with him, Nelly, and he shows his good blood when he holds that a Carnegie needs no tocher.

The man wha sits on the silk goun-tail o' the wife wha's tocher bought it, never sits easy.

They despise, too, restorations of tocher; and as for the one turning witness against the others frailties, you never hear of it.

But tocher is refused by the Scot, who wants only his dearly won lady.

Mr. tocher, a Peterhead gentleman, has adopted a special line of investigation.

After all, Jan had been the injured man; he ought to 157 have had some of her tocher down.

I thocht that maybe John might hae the poo'er to treat Kaims as my tocher.

Johnie calls for a priest to marry his love and him, the king for a clerk to write the tocher.

Beddoe's map, constructed from Gray and tocher's statistics, clearly indicates the distribution of racial types.

She knew that William and Peter had quarrelled about the tocher, but still she did not suspect her father.

Word Value for tochers
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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