Meaning of tosher | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A member of the Tosh Hassidic community
2. A thief who steals the copper siding from the bottoms of vessels, particularly in or along the Thames.
   historical
3. A scavenger of valuables lost in the sewers, particularly those of London during the Victorian Age.
   historical

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Examples

“Toshers, men who steal copper from ships' bottoms in the Thames.”

“The sewer-hunters were formerly, and indeed are still, called by the name of ‘Toshers’, the articles which they pick up in the course of their wanderings along shore being known among themselves by the general term ‘tosh’, a word more particularly applied by them to anything made of copper.”

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