Tocher vs Torcher - What's the difference?
tocher | torcher |
A dowry.
*1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 121:
*:And folk were to say […] old Guthrie had been fair spiteful to his sons, maybe Will would dispute his sister's tocher .
One who torches something
(obsolete) One who gives light with a torch, or as if with a torch.
* 1598 , , II. i. 162:
(music) A torch song
* {{quote-news, 1988, August 26, Neil Tesser, Montgomery, Plant & Stritch, Chicago Reader
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As nouns the difference between tocher and torcher
is that tocher is a dowry while torcher is one who torches something.tocher
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Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----torcher
English
Noun
(en noun)- The torchers of buildings must be dealt with.
- Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring / Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring,
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