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Siding vs Tosher - What's the difference?

siding | tosher |

As nouns the difference between siding and tosher

is that siding is (label) a building material which covers and protects the sides of a house or other building or siding can be (rail transport) a second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for unloading freight, or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction) while tosher is (historical|cant) a thief who steals the copper siding from the bottoms of vessels, particularly in or along the thames.

As a verb siding

is .

As an adjective tosher is

(tosh).

siding

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) A building material which covers and protects the sides of a house or other building.
  • Ugh. If there's one thing I can't stand it's cheesy vinyl siding .
    Synonyms
    * cladding (UK)

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • Whenever he hears an argument, he can't help siding with one party or the other.

    Etymology 3

    .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rail transport) A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for unloading freight, or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction).
  • * 1919 ,
  • They slept where they could, sometimes in an empty truck on a siding near the station, sometimes in a cart behind a warehouse; [...]

    Synonyms

    (railroad side track) railroad siding, sidetrack, lay-by (UK)

    tosher

    English

    (wikipedia tosher)

    Etymology 1

    From 19th century British thieves' cant + (-er) (one who uses or acquires ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical, cant) A thief who steals the copper siding from the bottoms of vessels, particularly in or along the Thames.
  • *1859 , J.C. Hotten, A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words used at the present day, preceded by a history of cant and vulgar language, with glossaries of two secret languages, by a London antiquary
  • *:Toshers , men who steal copper from ships' bottoms in the Thames.
  • A scavenger of valuables lost in the sewers, particularly those of London during the Victorian Age.
  • *1851 , H. Mayhew, London labour and the London poor , II. 150/2
  • *: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.
  • Derived terms
    * toshing

    Etymology 2

    See .

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (tosh)
  • Anagrams

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