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noun

Pouch n.

A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.

That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch; as:

(a)

A protuberant belly; a paunch; so called in ridicule.

(b)

(Zool.) A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.

(c)

(Med.) A cyst or sac containing fluid.

(d)

(Bot.) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.

(e)

A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.

Pouch mouth, a mouth with blubbered or swollen lips.

verb

Pouch v. t. (past & past part. pouched; pres. part. pouching)

To put or take into a pouch.

To swallow; said of fowls.

To pout. (Obs.)

To pocket; to put up with. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Pouch'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pouch" Quotes from Famous Books

... coarse white cotton, and yellow slippers; those of the officers are red. Some have turbans adorned with gold. They carry their powder in a leather purse; the match, made of cotton, is wound round the gun; they have flint and steel in a pouch, and also ...

— An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa • Abd Salam Shabeeny

... died out of the old lady's eyes; she stopped rocking, and cackled gleefully; this time-worn joke never failed to delight her. With eager, trembling fingers she brought out a cob pipe from a corner behind the stove, and handed it to Calvin, who filled it from his own pouch and returned it to her. Then he lighted his own pipe, and soon they were puffing in concert. In the pantry close by Miss Phrony was rattling dishes; they sounded ...

— The Wooing of Calvin Parks • Laura E. Richards

... some there were who laughed and some looked grave, some talked amain and some wagged solemn heads, while many a good coin rang heartily at Duke Jocelyn's feet; smiling, he bade Sir Pertinax take them up, joying to see the proud Knight stooping thus to pouch the money like any beggar. But now, when he would fain have gone his way into the town, the people would by no means suffer it and clamoured amain on all sides, insistent for more; wherefore, lifting his scarred face to the sunset sky, Duke ...

— The Geste of Duke Jocelyn • Jeffery Farnol

... dirty-two," spoke up a Jewish-looking man at the big table, hurriedly pulling out his pouch and counting down a batch of very soiled money from it, which he held out to the servant just as the landlord, too, tendered ...

— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford

... three o'clock the cavalry scouts started. As Jack stood by the side of his kneeling steed, with Joe Crouch on his right, his heart beat fast. This was something different from any of his previous military experiences; the cartridges in his pouch and bandoleer were ball, not blank. It was to be the real thing this time; the stern reality of what he and Valentine had so often pictured and played at far away in the ...

— Soldiers of the Queen • Harold Avery

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