noun

• A dowry.

  ‘Her tocher was a mere thirty chalders of victual from the Oliphant estates.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Stewart's impressive rise to political prominence began soon after his marriage to Lady Katherine, a match which brought 20,000 merks scots in tocher.’
  • ‘The marriage took place at Woodstock on 5 September 1186; Henry II paid for the four days of festivities and returned Edinburgh Castle as part of the bride's tocher.’
  • ‘Here's a tocher for ye, and whan ye marry far away, ye' think of yere grand-uncle, though ye never saw him but once.’
  • ‘It appears irreconcileable to justice, that the offending wife should be punished with the loss of her tocher, which is generally her all.’

  Synonyms

  marriage settlement, portion, marriage portion