Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A local name for hollow brown nodules of quartz lined with crystals of the same mineral found at Bristol, England.
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Now, had you a tocher like that, it would be a gey business, I think, -- fourteen potato-stones at the very least, I would say, eh? "
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII Alexander Leighton 1837
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