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chained_bear "Early risers strolling along the Thames would see the toshers wading through the muck of low tide ... their oversized pockets filled with stray bits of copper recovered from the water's edge. The toshers walked with a lantern strapped to their chest sic to help them see in the predawn gloom, and carried an eight-foot-long pole that they used to test the ground in front of them, and to pull themselves out when they stumbled into a quagmire."
—Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map (New York: Penguin, 2006), 1–2 Sep 30, 2008
missanthropist One who, on the Thames, steals copper from the bottom of ships.
Adm. William Smythe's Sailor's Word~Book, 1867 May 17, 2008