Sc. and n. dial. [f. prec.] trans. To furnish with a tocher; to dower.
a. 1578. Lindesay (Pitscottie), Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.), I. 125. He … tocharit hir with the Lordschipe of Ballvenie.
1781. Burns, Tarbolton Lasses, ii. Well he can spare’t, Braid Money to tocher them a’, man.
1829. Hogg, Sheph. Cal., I. x. 304. It wad tocher a’ our bonny lasses.
1878. Cumberld. Gloss., s.v. Tokker, Togher, ‘He tokker’t his dowter wi’ twenty pund.’
Hence Tochered ppl. a. (qualified by adverbs, as well-tochered).
1728. Ramsay, Give me a Lass with a Lump of Land, iii. Well tocher’d lasses or joynter’d widows.
1816. Scott, Antiq., xii. Ye are a bonny young leddy, and a gude ane, and maybe a weel-tochered ane.
1881. Blackw. Mag., April, 524. The fairly tochered spinster.
