tosh

Copper; items made of copper.

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.

Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers.

I am present engaged in fishing for tosh in the sewers of Blastburn.

Rubbish, trash, (now especially) nonsense, bosh, balderdash

To think what I've gone through to hear that man! Frightful tosh it'll be, too.

Perhaps it helped a man into Parliament, Parliament still being a confused retrogressive corner in the world where lawyers and suchlike sheltered themselves from the onslaughts of common-sense behind a fog of Latin and Greek and twaddle and tosh.

A bath or foot pan

A ‘tosh’ pan... is also provided.

We call a tub a tosh.

Easy bowling

Among the recent neologisms of the cricket field is ‘tosh’, which means bowling of contemptible easiness.

To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls

Toshing, a cant word for stealing copper sheathing from vessels' bottoms, or from dock-yard stores.

To search for valuables in sewers

You tend to the toshing, let Mester Hobday tend to the dealing.

To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"

‘Toshing’ was the name given to a punishment inflicted by the cadets on any one of their number who made himself obnoxious. The victim, dressed in full uniform, was forced to run the gauntlet of his brother cadets, who, as he passed, emptied the contents of their ‘tosh-cans’ (small baths holding about three gallons of water) over the wretched lad's head.

He toshed his house beak by mistake, and got three hundred.

Tight.

Tosh, tight, neat.

Neat, clean; tidy, trim.

I gang ay fou clean and fou tosh As a' the neighbours can tell.

Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.

We were a very tosh and agreeable company.