Tosher
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tosher-189-8829321
title:
Tosher
text:
A tosher is someone who scavenges in the sewers, a sewer-hunter, especially in London during the Victorian era. The word tosher was also used to describe the thieves who stripped valuable copper from the hulls of ships moored along the Thames. The related slang term "tosh" referred to valuables thus collected. Both "tosher" and "tosh" are of unknown origin.
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encyclopedia
description:
Someone who scavenges in the sewers
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosher
date created:
2006-12-25T14:00:02Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T08:21:14Z
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