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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
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
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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