Pocket

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A hole containing water.

II. Pocket ·add. ·noun A bight on a lee shore.

III. Pocket ·vt To take clandestinely or fraudulently.

IV. Pocket ·noun ·same·as Pouch.

V. Pocket ·add. ·noun A bin for storing coal, grain, ·etc.

VI. Pocket ·vt To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.

VII. Pocket ·add. ·noun A socket for receiving the foot of a post, stake, ·etc.

VIII. Pocket ·add. ·noun Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use;.

IX. Pocket ·noun One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven.

X. Pocket ·noun A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, ·etc.

XI. Pocket ·noun A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.

XII. Pocket ·noun A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.

XIII. Pocket ·noun A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.

XIV. Pocket ·noun A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.

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