toshes

1. Copper; items made of copper
2. Valuables retrieved from sewers and drains
3. Rubbish, trash, especially in the sense of nonsense, bosh, balderdash
4. A bath or foot pan
5. Easy bowling
6. Used as a form of address.

1. To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls

   1867, W. H. Smyth, Sailor's Word-book

2. To search for valuables in sewers
3. To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"

verb

To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.

1. A half-crown coin; its value
2. A crown coin; its value
3. Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage