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Copper vs Tosher - What's the difference?

copper | tosher |

As nouns the difference between copper and tosher

is that copper is (lb) a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol cu, and atomic number 29 or copper can be (slang|law enforcement) a police officer while tosher is (historical|cant) a thief who steals the copper siding from the bottoms of vessels, particularly in or along the thames.

As adjectives the difference between copper and tosher

is that copper is made of copper while tosher is (tosh).

As a verb copper

is to sheathe or coat with copper.

copper

English

(wikipedia copper)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) coper, from (etyl) coper, .

Noun

  • (lb) a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol Cu, and atomic number 29.
  • (lb) Something made of copper.
  • The reddish-brown colour/color of copper.
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  • (lb) A copper coin.
  • *(Benjamin Franklin) (1706-1790)
  • *:My friends filled my pockets with coppers .
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  • *:"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal.."
  • A large pot, often used for heating water or washing clothes over a fire. In Australasia at least, it could also be a fixed installation made of copper, with a fire underneath and its own chimney. Generally made redundant by the advent of the washing machine.
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  • *1797 , Dyeing'', article in Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig (editors), ''Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature , Volume 6, Part 1 p.207:
  • *:When the water in the copper boils, the arsenic and tartar, well pounded, is put into it, and kept boiling till the liquor is reduced to about half.
    • Synonyms
    * (colour) chestnut, russet
    Derived terms
    * antimonial copper * arsenical copper * barium copper oxide * black copper * black copper ore * blister copper, blistered copper * blanched copper * blue copper * Bungtown copper * Chessy copper * chromated copper arsenate * clear one's coppers * cool one's coppers * copper acetate * copper age * copper arsenate * copper-arsenide * copper-arsenite * copper-beech * copper-bellied snake * copper-belly * Copper Belt * copperbelt * copper belt * copper-bit * copper-blende * copper-bloom * copper-bottom * copper-bottomed * copper-bound * copper-butterfly * copper-cap * copper-captain * copper carbonate * copper chloride * copper-colic * copper-colored * copper-coloured * copper-cut * copper dichloride * coppered * copper-emerald * copperer * Copper Eskimo * copper-faced * copper-fasten * copper-fastened * copper-finch * copper-foil * copper-glance * copper-green * copperhead * copper-head * copper-headed * copper-hells * copper-hops * copper-Indian * coppering * copper-iron * copperise * copperize * copperish * copper-knob * copper loss * copper-man * copper-manganese * copper-mica * copper-nickel * copper nitrate * coppernob * copper-nose * copper ore * copper oxide * copper phosphide * copper-place * copperplate * copper-powder * copper pyrites * copper-rain * copper schist * copperskin * copper-skinned * copper-slate * coppersmith * copper-smoke * copper-snake * copper-spot * copper sulfate * copper sulphate * copper sulfide * copper sulphide * copper-top * copper-topped * copper uranite * copper-vitriol * copperware * copper-wing * copper-work * copper-works * coppery * copper-zinc * disulfide of copper * disulphide of copper * dry copper * emerald copper * emerald copper ore * enamelers' copper * enamellers' copper * gold-copper ore * grey copper * grey copper ore * hot coppers * indigo copper * japan copper * large copper * manganese copper * octahedral copper * octahedral copper ore * phosphor copper * purple copper * purple copper ore * pyritous copper * red copper * scarce copper * silver-copper nitrate * sulfate of copper * sulphate of copper * variegated copper * variegated copper ore * velvet copper * velvet copper ore * white copper * yellow copper * yellow copper ore
    Related terms
    * BSCCO * copperas * cupr-, cupro- * cuprane * cuprate * cuprea bark * cupreous * cupric * cupriferous * cuprite * cuproid * cuproso- * cuprous * YBCO

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Made of copper.
  • Having the reddish-brown colour/color of copper.
  • * Coleridge
    • All in a hot and copper sky,
    The bloody Sun, at noon,
    Right up above the mast did stand,
    No bigger than the Moon.
    Synonyms
    * (made of copper) * (having the colour/color of copper ): coppery

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To sheathe or coat with copper.

    • See also

    * anna * azurite * bell metal * bluestone * blue vitriol * Bordeaux mixture * bornite * brass * bronze * Caboclo * chalcid * chalcanthite * chalcocite * chalcopyrite * chalcosis * chessylite * chrysocolla * covellite * ferrous sulphate * kipper * lentigohepatic degeneration * malachite * Monel * olivenite * ormolu * patina * peacock ore * soldo * speculum metal * tombac * verd antique * verdigris * * Wilson's disease *

    Etymology 2

    From

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, law enforcement) A police officer.
    • Synonyms
    * (policeman) police officer, constable, cop, see also
    Related terms
    * cop

    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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