Tocher
Origin
From Scots tocher, from Middle Irish tochar.
Full definition of tocher
Noun
tocher
(plural tochers)- 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.