POUCH

pouch

(noun) a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things

pouch, pocket

(noun) (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)

pouch, sac, sack, pocket

(noun) an enclosed space; “the trapped miners found a pocket of air”

bulge, pouch, protrude

(verb) swell or protrude outwards; “His stomach bulged after the huge meal”

pouch

(verb) send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels

pouch

(verb) put into a small bag

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

pouch (plural pouches)

A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.

A pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.

Synonym: marsupium

Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.

(slang, dated, derogatory) A protuberant belly; a paunch.

A cyst or sac containing fluid.

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

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

Verb

pouch (third-person singular simple present pouches, present participle pouching, simple past and past participle pouched)

(transitive) To enclose within a pouch.

(transitive) To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.

(of fowls and fish) To swallow.

(obsolete) To pout.

(obsolete) To pocket; to put up with.

Source: Wiktionary

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Pouch, n. Etym: [F. poche a pocket, pouch, bag; probably of Teutonic origin. See Poke a bag, and cf. Poach to cook eggs, to plunder.]

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) (Zoöl.) 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. S. Sharp. (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.

Pouch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pouched; p. pr. & vb. n. Pouching.]

1. To put or take into a pouch.

2. To swallow; -- said of fowls. Derham.

3. To pout. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

4. To pocket; to put up with. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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