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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



... kondukisto. Postscript postskribajxo. Postulate petado. Posture tenigxo. Pot poto. Potash potaso. Potato terpomo. Potency potenco. Potent potenca. Potential potencebla, poviga. Potter potisto. Pottery (art) potfarado. Pottery, a potfarejo. Pouch saketo. Poultice kataplasmo. Poultry kortbirdaro. Poultry-yard kortbirdejo. Pound (grind) pisti. Pound (money) livro. Pound (weight) funto. Pour out (liquids) versxi. Pour out sxuti. Pout kolereti. Poverty malricxeco. Powder (hair, etc.) pudri. Powder (gun) pulvo. Powder ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
... flight." All these technical details left the good woman cold. What she remembered best were the practical qualities of the creatures. The kangaroo has one very great peculiarity, the female has a pouch, a sort of bag, in which she hides her young if danger appears, just as the soldier ...
— The Curly-Haired Hen • Auguste Vimar
... out of the pouch at his side a long black, dirty-looking leaf, which smelt very strong, and also a little bowl about the size of a man's thumb, with a long, slender handle fixed to it. Said he to a boy standing near him, "Run, my pretty fellow, and bring me some fire." Whilst the ...
— Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3) • James Athearn Jones
... speaking, he threw away his corona corona—a dream of a cigar for nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand (I glanced at Adrian who had religiously preserved two inches of ash on his)—and hauled out pipe and tobacco-pouch. I could not hear what she said. When she had finished, ...
— Jaffery • William J. Locke
... pouch he drew his peace pipe, very old and strangely fashioned. He filled the pipe with bark of willow, and placed a burning ...
— The Child's World - Third Reader • Hetty Browne, Sarah Withers, W.K. Tate


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