tosher

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

Equivalents

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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