Lexicographical Neighbors of Toshing
Literary usage of Toshing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Student in Arms. 2d Series by Donald William Alers Hankey (1917)
"... farewell dinner to the former, and we received information that the third term
were going to raid our house, with a view to "toshing" us in a cold bath. ..."
2. The Sailor's Word-book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, Including by William Henry Smyth (1867)
"toshing. A cant word for stealing copper sheathing from vessels' bottoms, or from
dock-yard stores. TOSS IN YOUR OARS! The order to desist rowing, ..."
3. Spices by Henry Nicholas Ridley (1912)
"English acres) under cultivation, and that the area was increasing every year.
The cultivation had been carried on for twenty-five years. In toshing the low ..."
4. Steamships and Their Machinery from First to Last by John Wilton Cuninghame Haldane (1893)
"... and rows of fitters, too, at least what is left of them in days when planed,
slotted, etc., details only require a little toshing up here with a file, ..."
5. John Cassell's Illustrated History of England by John Frederick Smith, William Howitt (1863)
"There is a long line of unbroken wall between the toshing gate and the river,
hardly approachable from swamps and low paddy land, and the space between the ..."
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