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–noun
1.a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, esp. one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch.
2.a small moneybag.
3.a bag for carrying mail.
4.a bag or case of leather, used by soldiers to carry ammunition.
5.something shaped like or resembling a bag or pocket.
6.Chiefly Scot. a pocket in a garment.
7.a baggy fold of flesh under the eye.
8.Anatomy, Zoology. a baglike or pocketlike part; a sac or cyst, as the sac beneath the bill of pelicans, the saclike dilation of the cheeks of gophers, or the receptacle for the young of marsupials.
9.Botany. a baglike cavity.
–verb (used with object)
10.to put into or enclose in a pouch, bag, or pocket; pocket.
11.to arrange in the form of a pouch.
12.(of a fish or bird) to swallow.
–verb (used without object)
13.to form a pouch or a cavity resembling a pouch.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME pouche < AF, var. of OF poche; also poke, poque bag. See poke2]
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pouch    Audio Help   (pouch)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A small bag often closing with a drawstring and used especially for carrying loose items in one's pocket.
  2. A bag or sack used to carry mail or diplomatic dispatches.
  3. A leather bag or case for carrying powder or small-arms ammunition.
  4. A sealed plastic or foil container used in packaging frozen or dehydrated food.
  5. Something resembling a bag in shape: one's pouches under one's eyes.
  6. Zoology A saclike structure, such as the cheek pockets of the gopher or the external abdominal pocket in which marsupials carry their young.
  7. Anatomy A pocketlike space in the body: the pharyngeal pouch.
  8. Scots A pocket.
  9. Archaic A purse for small coins.

v.   pouched, pouch·ing, pouch·es

v.   tr.
  1. To place in or as if in a pouch; pocket.
  2. To cause to resemble a pouch.
  3. To swallow. Used of certain birds or fishes.

v.   intr.
To assume the form of a pouch or pouchlike cavity.


[Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin.]

pouch'y adj.
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pouch 
c.1384, "small bag in which money is carried," from Anglo-Fr. puche, O.N.Fr. pouche (13c.), O.Fr. poche, from a Gmc. source (cf. O.E. pocca "bag;" see poke (n.1)). Extended to cavities in animal bodies from c.1450.

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pouch

noun
1. a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things 
2. an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air" 
3. (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican) 

verb
1. put into a small bag 
2. send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels 
3. swell or protrude outwards; "His stomach bulged after the huge meal" [syn: bulge

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pouch1 [pautʃ] noun
a small bag
Example: a tobacco-pouch
Arabic: كيس
Chinese (Simplified): 小袋
Chinese (Traditional): 小袋
Czech: váček
Danish: pung; -pung
Dutch: zakje
Estonian: (väike) kott
Finnish: pussi
French: sac(oche), blague
German: der Beutel
Greek: σακούλι
Hungarian: zacskó
Icelandic: taska, poki
Indonesian: kantung kecil
Italian: borsa
Japanese: 小袋
Korean: 작은 주머니, 행낭
Latvian: maisiņš
Lithuanian: kapš(iuk)as
Norwegian: pung, pose
Polish: woreczek
Portuguese (Brazil): bolsa
Portuguese (Portugal): bolsa
Romanian: săculeţ
Russian: мешочек, сумка;кисет
Slovak: vrecúško
Slovenian: mošnja
Spanish: bolsa pequeña, (tabaco) petaca, (caza) morral, zurrón
Swedish: pung, påse
Turkish: kese
pouch2 [pautʃ] noun
something bag-like
Example: This animal stores its food in two pouches under its chin.
Arabic: مِحْفَظَه
Chinese (Simplified): 袋状物
Chinese (Traditional): 袋狀物
Czech: vak
Danish: pung
Dutch: zak
Estonian: tasku
Finnish: pussi
French: poche
German: der Beutel
Greek: σάκος
Hungarian: zacskó
Icelandic: poki
Indonesian: kantung
Italian: sacca
Japanese: 袋状のもの
Korean: 주머니 모양의 부분
Latvian: maiss; pazode
Lithuanian: pagurklis
Norwegian: pung, pose
Polish: torba
Portuguese (Brazil): bolsa
Portuguese (Portugal): bolsa
Romanian: buzu­năraş
Russian: что-л., похожее на мешочек
Slovak: vak
Slovenian: vrečka
Spanish: bolsa
Swedish: påse
Turkish: ağız kesesi; göz altı torbacığı
pouch3 [pautʃ] noun
the pocket of skin in which the young of certain kinds of animal, eg the kangaroo, are reared
Arabic: جِراب
Chinese (Simplified): (动物的)育儿袋
Chinese (Traditional): (動物的)育兒袋
Czech: vak
Danish: pung
Dutch: buidel
Estonian: kukkur
Finnish: pussi
French: poche
German: der Beutel
Greek: μάρσιπος
Hungarian: erszény
Icelandic: poki
Indonesian: kantung
Italian: marsupio
Japanese: 腹袋
Korean: (캥거루 등의) 육아 주머니
Latvian: soma
Lithuanian: sterblė
Norwegian: pung
Polish: torba
Portuguese (Brazil): bolsa
Portuguese (Portugal): bolsa
Romanian: marsupiu
Russian: сумка
Slovak: vak
Slovenian: vreča
Spanish: bolsa
Swedish: pung
Turkish: kese, cep
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Pouch

Poach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Poached; p. pr. & vb. n. Poaching.] [F. pocher to place in a pocket, to poach eggs (the yolk of the egg being as it were pouched in the white), from poche pocket, pouch. See Pouch, v. & n.]

1. To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel. --Bacon.

2. To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder. --Garth.
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Pouch

Pock"et\, n. [OE. poket, Prov. F. & OF. poquette, F. pochette, dim. fr. poque, pouque, F. poche; probably of Teutonic origin. See Poke a pocket, and cf. Poach to cook eggs, to plunder, and Pouch.]

1. A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.

2. One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven.

3. A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, etc.

Note: In the wool or hop trade, the pocket contains half a sack, or about 168 Ibs.; but it is a variable quantity, the articles being sold by actual weight.

4. (Arch.) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.

5. (Mining.) (a) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity. (b) A hole containing water.

6. (Nat.) A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.

7. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Pouch.

Note: Pocket is often used adjectively, or in the formation of compound words usually of obvious signification; as, pocket comb, pocket compass, pocket edition, pocket handkerchief, pocket money, pocket picking, or pocket-picking, etc.

Out of pocket. See under Out, prep.

Pocket borough, a borough "owned" by some person. See under Borough. [Eng.]

Pocket gopher (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of American rodents of the genera Geomys, and Thomomys, family Geomyd[ae]. They have large external cheek pouches, and are fossorial in their habits. they inhabit North America, from the Mississippi Valley west to the Pacific. Called also pouched gopher.

Pocket mouse (Zo["o]l.), any species of American mice of the family Saccomyid[ae]. They have external cheek pouches. Some of them are adapted for leaping (genus Dipadomys), and are called kangaroo mice. They are native of the Southwestern United States, Mexico, etc.

Pocket piece, a piece of money kept in the pocket and not spent.

Pocket pistol, a pistol to be carried in the pocket.

Pocket sheriff (Eng. Law), a sheriff appointed by the sole authority of the crown, without a nomination by the judges in the exchequer. --Burrill.
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