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Pouch   /paʊtʃ/   Listen
noun
Pouch  n.  
1.
A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.
2.
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)  
1.
To put or take into a pouch.
2.
To swallow; said of fowls.
3.
To pout. (Obs.)
4.
To pocket; to put up with. (R.)





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"Pouch" Quotes from Famous Books



... the bottom. Such was the object held up by the little girl. Prom each of these compartments issued a thick tube, ramifying into endless smaller ones; and they were moreover each surmounted by a sort of pouch, into which ran another tube, of the same description as the first. Each of these four portions (the two compartments and their pouches) was in constant but independent motion, distending and contracting alternately; and by carefully examining the noiseless play of this singular ...
— The History of a Mouthful of Bread - And its effect on the organization of men and animals • Jean Mace
... had no more than started when the squire gave a great, screeching howl and sprang from his chair and staggered backward, his eyes popped and the pouch under his chin quivering as though it had a separate life all its own. Startled, the constable made toward him and they struck together heavily and went down—both on their all fours—right in front of ...
— The Escape of Mr. Trimm - His Plight and other Plights • Irvin S. Cobb
... of the Gardens, he has succeeded in training the great kangaroo to perform several tricks. They all recognise him readily, and do what he tells them. He entered the shed for the purpose of fetching the female kangaroo out of the house, so that I might see the baby kangaroo in its mother's pouch. But it so happened that the father was standing against the door-grating, and he had to be reasoned with before he would retire to allow the gate to be opened. But he ultimately obeyed his keeper's instructions. Then ...
— Little Folks (November 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... beginning to creep through the shutters. There I breakfasted off a whisky-and-soda and some biscuits from the cupboard. By this time it was getting on for six o'clock. I put a pipe in My Pocket and filled my pouch from the tobacco jar on the table ...
— The Thirty-nine Steps • John Buchan
... one vast warren. These rabbits were of the size of those of Barbary, having heads like our own rabbits in England, with feet like those of a mole, and long tails like rats. Under the chin on each side, they have a bag or pouch in the skin, into which they store up any food they get abroad, which they there preserve for future use. Their flesh is much valued by the natives, and their skins are made into robes for the king and nobles. This country seemed to promise rich veins of gold and silver; as wherever they had ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume X • Robert Kerr


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