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Answer for the clue "After short game, managed to make pouch ", 7 letters:
sporran

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A small pouch, usually made of either fur or plain or fur-trimmed leather, which is worn, suspended from a belt or chain, on the front of a kilt and used to hold various items normally carried in pants pockets.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a fur or leather pouch worn at the front of the kilt by Scottish Highlanders

Usage examples of sporran.

He came from the far north and at the Highland games he used to array himself in kilt and sporran and throw cabers around like matchsticks.

Upstanding young cockerel, swinging his sporran and marching to pipes--a fine spurn about him!

A gaelic-speaking Calvinist with three thousand million bawbees in my sporran and a brace of bed-ridden cattle-thieves in my kirk.

Bruce Scott, owner of the men's store, had told him the evening would be informal: no Prince Charlie coatees, no fur sporrans, and no fringed plaids thrown over the shoulder and anchored with a poached egg.

After an uncertain pause, one or two bold souls followed suit, and then a few more, digging copper doits and pence out of purse and sporran.

And the sporran, as well as the superficial skin under it, were gone, exposing the fascia and some of the muscle fibres of the abdominal wall.

He patted Rabbie Campbell on the head, and handed him a penny from his Sporran.

Here we paused, and he made a short speech, mixed in Gaelic and English, which was received with further applause, particularly when he reached into his sporran and tossed a small wash-leather bag to the landlord, instructing that worthy to serve whisky so long as it lasted.