c. 1840. Mansfield, School-Life at Winchester (1866), 240. Toe-pan.—A large basin of red earthenware placed in each chamber for washing the feet in.
Top-side, subs. (Harrow).—A wing at football: the opposite one to Bottom-side (q.v.).
Torch-race, subs. (Winchester: obsolete).—Formerly, part of the breaking-up ceremony of the winter half-year. On the last morning the boys, after early chapel, rushed out of gates, each bearing a burning birch-broom, up College Street and along the wall of the Close up to the old White Hart Inn, where breakfast was prepared before the chaises started for their various destinations. This curious TORCH-RACE subsequently gave way to a race of the seniors in sedan chairs.
Torpid, subs. (Harrow).—A boy who has not been two years in the school. There is a cup for the Cock-house (q.v.) at torpids in football.
Torpids, subs. (Oxford).—(1) The eight-oared spring races; (2) the boats; and (3) the crews. Also Togger.
1853. Bradley, Verdant Green, II. xii. The Misses Green had the satisfaction to see their brother pulling in one of the fifteen TORPIDS that followed immediately in the wake of the other boats.
1889. Felstedian, Feb., p. 11. After the TORPIDS will come the Clinker Forms—an institution hitherto unknown in Oxford.
1900. Westminster Gazette, 21st Feb., 8. 3. Oxford University TORPIDS. These races were concluded to-day.
Tosh, subs. (general).—A foot-tub; a bath. Also, as verb = to throw water over a person: e.g. “He TOSHED his house beak by mistake, and got three hundred.” Hence Tosh-pond (Royal Military Academy) = the bathing-pond. [That is, “toe-wash.”]
Tosher, subs. (Oxford).—An unattached student.