TOSHES

noun

1. Copper; items made of copper
2. Valuables retrieved from sewers and drains
3. Rubbish, trash, especially in the sense of nonsense, bosh, balderdash

verb

1. To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls
2. To search for valuables in sewers
3. To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"

verb

1. To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.