What is "pocket"

Pocket \Pock"et\, n. Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use; specif.:

1. A bin for strong coal, grain, etc.

2. A socket for receiving the foot of a post, stake, etc.

3. A bright on a lee shore.

Pocket \Pock"et\ (p[o^]k"[e^]t), n. [OE. poket, Prov. F. & OF. poquette, F. pochette, dim. fr. poque, pouque, F. poche; probably of Teutonic origin. See Poke a pocket, and cf. Poach to cook eggs, to plunder, and Pouch.]

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.)

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

   2. 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. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Pouch.

8. Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use; specif.:

   1. A bin for storing coal, grain, etc.

   2. A socket for receiving the foot of a post, stake, etc.

   3. A bight on a lee shore.

   4. a small cavity in the body, especially one abnormally filled with a fluid; as, a pocket of pus.

   5. (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 (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of American rodents of the genera Geomys, and Thomomys, family Geomyd[ae]. 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 (Zo["o]l.), any species of American mice of the family Saccomyid[ae]. 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.
    --Burrill.

Pocket \Pock"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pocketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Pocketing.]

1. To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.

   He would pocket the expense of the license.
   --Sterne.

2. To take clandestinely or fraudulently.

   He pocketed pay in the names of men who had long been dead.
   --Macaulay.

   To pocket a ball (Billiards), to drive a ball into a pocket of the table.

   To pocket an insult, affront, etc., to receive an affront without open resentment, or without seeking redress. ``I must pocket up these wrongs.''
   --Shak.

1580s, "to place in a pocket" (often with implications of dishonesty), from pocket (n.). From the earliest use often figurative. Meaning "to form pockets" is from c.1600. Related: Pocketed; pocketing.

mid-14c., pokete, "bag, pouch, small sack," from Anglo-French pokete (13c.), diminutive of Old North French poque "bag" (Old French pouche), from a Germanic source akin to Frankish *pokka "bag," from Proto-Germanic *puk- (see poke (n.)).\n

\nMeaning "small bag worn on the person, especially one sewn into a garment" is from early 15c. Sense in billiards is from 1754. Mining sense is attested from 1850; military sense of "area held by troops surrounded by the enemy" is from 1918; the general sense of "small area different than its surroundings" (1926) apparently was extended from the military use. Figuratively, "one's money" (conceived as being kept in a pocket) is from 1717. Pope Pokett (late 15c.) was figurative of the greedy and corrupt Church.

1610s, "of or pertaining to or meant for a pocket," from pocket (n.). Pocket-knife is first recorded 1727; pocket-money is attested from 1630s. Often merely implying a small-sized version of something (for example of of warships, from 1930; also compare Pocket Venus "beautiful, small woman," attested from 1808). Pocket veto attested from 1842, American English.\n\nThe "pocket veto" can operate only in the case of bills sent to the President within ten days of Congressional adjournment. If he retain such a bill (figuratively, in his pocket) neither giving it his sanction by signing it, nor withholding his sanction in returning it to Congress, the bill is defeated. The President is not bound to give reasons for defeating a bill by a pocket veto which he has not had at least ten days to consider. In a regular veto he is bound to give such reasons.

[James Albert Woodburn, "The American Republic and its Government," Putnam's, 1903]

1. 1 Of a size suitable for putting into a pocket. 2 Smaller or more compact than usual. 3 (context Texas hold'em poker English) Referring to the two initial hole cards. n. A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items. v

2. 1 To put (something) into a pocket. 2 (context sports billiards snooker pool English) To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot. 3 (context slang English) To take and keep (especially money) that which is not one's own. 4 (context slang English) To shoplift, to steal. 5 To receive (an insult, an affront, et

3. ) without open resentment, or without seeking redress.

1. v. put in one's pocket; "He pocketed the change"

2. take unlawfully [syn: bag]

1. n. a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles

2. an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air" [syn: pouch, sac, sack]

3. a supply of money; "they dipped into the taxpayers' pockets"

4. (bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins next bnehind it on the right or left; "the ball hit the pocket and gave him a perfect strike"

5. a hollow concave shape made by removing something [syn: scoop]

6. a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly [syn: air pocket, air hole]

7. a small isolated group of people; "they were concentrated in pockets inside the city"; "the battle was won except for cleaning up pockets of resistance"

8. (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican) [syn: pouch]

9. an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck

A pocket is a bag- or envelope-like receptacle either fastened to or inserted in an article of clothing to hold small items. Pockets may also be attached to luggage, backpacks, and similar items. In older usage, a pocket was a separate small bag or pouch.

A pocket is a bag- or envelope-like receptacle, most commonly in clothing.

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