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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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"Pocket" Quotes from Famous Books



... Nothing she liked better than to play the part of Lady Bountiful, especially when any effort involved was shifted onto the shoulders of another, and in her careless fashion she was really anxious to do this nice girl a good turn. She made a note of Claire's address in a dainty gold-edged pocket-book, expressed pleasure in the belief that through her friend she would hear reports of the girl's progress, and presently shut her eyes, and dozed peacefully for the ...
— The Independence of Claire • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... side, presented him with a letter, and then retired with so much precipitation, that Horatio could neither ask from whom it came, nor well discern what sort of person it was that gave it him. He put it however in his pocket, designing to read it at more leisure, his curiosity for the contents not equalling his desire of entertaining mademoiselle Charlotta; but that young lady, whose jealousy received new fewel from this ...
— The Fortunate Foundlings • Eliza Fowler Haywood
... shooting apparel. Huge "arctics" were strapped on his feet, from which seemed to spring, as from massive roots, his small, thin form, clad in a scanty robe de chambre of cotton flannel, surmounted by a broad sou'wester, carefully covered by a voluminous white pocket handkerchief. The general effect was that of a gigantic mushroom carrying a heavy gun, and wearing a huge ...
— Adrift in the Ice-Fields • Charles W. Hall
... went up to the pail. He took out of his pocket a little green glass of an ikon lamp, wiped it with a rag, filled it from the pail and drank from it, then filled it again, wrapped the little glass in the rag, and then put it back ...
— The Bishop and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... briefly introducing the particular problem with which I was occupied. I took it for granted that a question from such a specialized branch of physics would not be of much interest to him. Judge of my astonishment when he at once took out of his pocket a note-book and a huge carpenter's pencil, made a sketch and proceeded to speak of the problem as one fully conversant with it, and in such a way that he gave me the starting point for an entirely new conception of electricity. It was instantly borne in ...
— Man or Matter • Ernst Lehrs


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