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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



... outside the law, existing outside the law, and having for its purpose the performance of those things and only those things which the law says cannot be performed legally. Imagine our law-makers gravely meeting to make laws for the control and regulation of the pick-pocket or burglar or counterfeiting industry, or endeavoring to prescribe legally the times, places, and amounts of national bank defalcations, or the kind of ink, paper, and pens which must be used by forgers in the pursuit of ...
— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson
... a sudden the wind came with a blast loud enough for the last trump, and the waves roared till they were hoarser than ever; away went the vessel's mast, although there was no more canvas on it than a jib pocket-handkerchief, and the craft rolled and tossed in the deep troughs for all the world like a wicked man dying in despair; and then she was a wreck, with nothing to help us but God Almighty, fast borne down upon the sands which the waters had ...
— Snarleyyow • Captain Frederick Marryat
... the like of me, lady, you may be sure that money never comes amiss; but that is not my errand. Here is what will make all clear;" and, as he spoke, he thrust his hand into the huge pocket within the horseman's cloak which enveloped him. Instead of the pistol or dag, which Paulina anticipated, he drew forth a large packet, carefully sealed. Paulina felt so much relieved at beholding this pledge of the man's ...
— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey
... Duke, producing a coin from his pocket, "this may help to console you should my touch fail to produce the desired effect." The woman on this immediately retired, telling all those present that she felt sure she should ...
— Roger Willoughby - A Story of the Times of Benbow • William H. G. Kingston
... I said, "attach too much importance to the score. When you try for a cannon off the white and hit it on the wrong side and send it into a pocket, and your own ball travels on and makes a losing hazard off the red, instead ...
— They and I • Jerome K. Jerome


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