[ Nicolas Simons wrote in 120918 MMDigest

> A previous restorer appears to have remade the primary pouches
> out of thin tosh. ...  They must be made out of zephyr...

Nicholas Simons owes us non-British English speakers the definition
of "tosh."

Matthew Caulfield

 [ My concise dictionary says it's British slang for nonsense,
 [ equivalent to, e.g., the interjection "Rubbish!"  See the MMDigest
 [ articles on "Quality of Thin Tosh Rubberized Cloth" indexed at
 [ http://www.mmdigest.com/archives/KWIC/T/tosh.html 
 [ -- Robbie