Pouch
[paʊtʃ]
Definition
(noun.) a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things.
(noun.) (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican).
(noun.) an enclosed space; 'the trapped miners found a pocket of air'.
(verb.) send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels.
(verb.) put into a small bag.
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Definition
(n.) A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.
(n.) That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch
(n.) A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.
(n.) A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.
(n.) A cyst or sac containing fluid.
(n.) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
(n.) A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.
(v. t.) To put or take into a pouch.
(v. t.) To swallow; -- said of fowls.
(v. t.) To pout.
(v. t.) To pocket; to put up with.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Bag (small), sack.
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Definition
n. a poke pocket or bag: the bag or sac of an animal.—v.t. to put into a pouch: to pocket submit to.—adj. Pouched having a pouch.—Pouched mouse a genus of small lean long-tailed agile rodents with cheek-pouches; Pouched rat a genus of plump short-tailed rodents with cheek-pouches which open externally.
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Examples
- Like a fool I left my baccy-pouch upon the table. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- You will find the just sum in a silken purse within the leathern pouch, and separate from the rest of the gold. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I handed him my pouch, and he seated himself opposite to me and smoked for some time in silence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was the man's own pouch, sir. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The lady had her husband's embroidered tobacco-pouch, and her store of paper in her hand, for the manufacture of the eternal cigarettes. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Nearly every Mexican carried a pouch of leaf tobacco, powdered by rolling in the hands, and a roll of corn husks to make wrappers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Anyhow, here I stand, this present day, NOT married to Joe Pouch's widder. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Karkov, a man of middle height with a gray, heavy, sagging face, puffed eye pouches and a pendulous under-lip called to him in a dyspeptic voice. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The United States, with its 76,000,000 of people, found it necessary to use in its mail service hundreds of thousands of mail pouches, having locks for securing packages of valuable matter. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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