pocket piece

American  

noun

1. (in a window frame) a removable part of a pulley stile permitting access to sash weights.

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Etymology

Origin of pocket piece

First recorded in 1700–10

Example Sentences

The "telephone coincidental" reports are gathered, run through I.B.M. machines, beaten into percentages and published every two weeks in "the pocket piece," a small green booklet that is every huckster's Bible.

From Time Magazine Archive

Others carry the medal as a pocket piece.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dat was me lucky pocket piece, and dat's gone, too.

From The Newsboy Partners Or Who Was Dick Box? by Webster, Frank V.

C. Hunter, with his signature, makes a fine pocket piece.

From Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep by Hunter, William Crosbie

There go four dollars' worth of dough and my pocket piece.

From The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)