phonetized forms of TOISECH.
1836. W. F. Skene, Highl. Scot. (1902), II. vi. 289. Toshoch being unquestionably the title anciently applied to the oldest cadets of the different clans.
1861. C. Innes, Sk. Early Scot. Hist., 396. The magistrate and head man of a little district known among his Celtic neighbours as the Toshach. Ibid. (1872), Lect. Scot. Legal Antiq., iii. 97. Some of the inferior executors of the law had Celtic names long preserved as Maor and Toschach.
