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

Others carry the medal as a pocket piece.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Here's a silver dollar I've been keeping for a pocket piece.

From Dorothy Dainty at the Mountains by Brooks, Amy

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)

Her precious talisman from the bride's cake, that she had carried as a pocket piece ever since Eugenia's wedding.

From The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)