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Pocket   /pˈɑkət/   Listen
noun
Pocket  n.  Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use; specif.:
(a)
A bin for strong coal, grain, etc.
(b)
A socket for receiving the foot of a post, stake, etc.
(c)
A bright on a lee shore.


Pocket  n.  
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.
(Zool.) Same as Pouch.
8.
Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use; specif.:
(a)
A bin for storing coal, grain, etc.
(b)
A socket for receiving the foot of a post, stake, etc.
(c)
A bight on a lee shore.
(d)
A small cavity in the body, especially one abnormally filled with a fluid; as, a pocket of pus.
(e)
(Dentistry) A small space between a tooth and the adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the gum from the tooth.
9.
An isolated group or area which has properties in contrast to the surrounding area; as, a pocket of poverty in an affluent region; pockets of resistance in a conquered territory; a pocket of unemployment in a booming ecomony.
10.
(Football) The area from which a quarterback throws a pass, behind the line of scrimmage, delineated by the defensive players of his own team who protect him from attacking opponents; as, he had ample time in the pocket to choose an open receiver.
11.
(Baseball) The part of a baseball glove covering the palm of the wearer's hand.
12.
(Bowling) The space between the head pin and one of the pins in the second row, considered as the optimal point at which to aim the bowling ball in order to get a strike. Note: Pocket is often used adjectively in the sense of small, or in the formation of compound words usually of obvious signification; as, pocket knife, pocket comb, pocket compass, pocket edition, pocket handkerchief, pocket money, pocket picking, or pocket-picking, etc.
deep pocket or
deep pockets, wealth or substantial financial assets. Note: Used esp. in legal actions, where plaintiffs desire to find a defendant with "deep pockets", so as to be able to actually obtain the sum of damages which may be judged due to him. This contrasts with a "judgment-proof" defendant, one who has neither assets nor insurance, and against whom a judgment for monetary damages would be uncollectable and worthless.
Out of pocket. See under Out, prep.
Pocket borough, a borough "owned" by some person. See under Borough. (Eng.)
Pocket gopher (Zool.), any one of several species of American rodents of the genera Geomys, and Thomomys, family Geomydae. 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 (Zool.), any species of American mice of the family Saccomyidae. 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.


verb
Pocket  v. t.  (past & past part. pocketed; pres. part. pocketing)  
1.
To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change. "He would pocket the expense of the license."
2.
To take clandestinely or fraudulently. "He pocketed pay in the names of men who had long been dead."
To pocket a ball (Billiards), to drive a ball into a pocket of the table.
To pocket an insult, To pocket an affront, etc., to receive an affront without open resentment, or without seeking redress. "I must pocket up these wrongs."





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... itself, an invention of Spanish journalism, and its unprecedented success is due to many of its quite unique peculiarities. Its originator, now a millionaire, is proud of relating that he arrived in Madrid with two dollars in his pocket. He it was who conceived the brilliant idea of founding a journal which should be the special organ of all. "Diario politico independiente, y de noticias: Eco imparcial de la opinion y de la prensa," he calls it, and the fourth page, devoted ...
— Spanish Life in Town and Country • L. Higgin and Eugene E. Street
... marching is growing terribly monotonous, but one cannot grumble as long as the distance can be kept up. It can, I think, if we leave a depot, but a very annoying thing has happened. Bowers' watch has suddenly dropped 26 minutes; it may have stopped from being frozen outside his pocket, or he may have inadvertently touched the hands. Any way it makes one more chary of leaving stores on this great plain, especially as the blizzard tended to drift up our tracks. We could only just see the back track when we started, but ...
— Scott's Last Expedition Volume I • Captain R. F. Scott
... abruptly. "Damnation! You shall have what you've come for. If seeing is believing—then you shall believe—that even Charles Burchester can protect a girl at a pinch from the snares of the virtuous!" He pulled an envelope from an inner pocket, and flung it with a passionate gesture upon the table in front ...
— Charles Rex • Ethel M. Dell
... serious duties as did good, rare, old Bunyan into his pulpit, with a feeling fairly oppressive that I was "the least of all the saints." My materia medica was in my vest pocket; my small library in my head, with its contents in a very hazy condition. With a weak memory for details, and marked inability to possess truth except by the slow process of digestion and assimilation, my brain was more a machine-shop than a wareroom; hence capacity of retail dealing was of the ...
— The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure • Edward Hooker Dewey
... didn't fancy that—so he shot himself, un-beautifully, through his ticket-pocket. And I went on and took Rosmersholm for the Summer. There had been misfortune in the house, so it was to let. Dear good old Rector KROLL acted as my reference; his wife and children had no sympathy with his ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 18, 1893 • Various


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