tocher
A dowry.
Noun
- A dowry.
- And folk were to say […] old Guthrie had been fair spiteful to his sons, maybe Will would dispute his sister's tocher. - 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 121:
Origin
From Scots tocher, from Middle Irish tochar.
Forms
Derived
Verb
- To supply with a dowry.