pouch

[ pouch ]

/ paʊtʃ /

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noun

a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch.

a small moneybag.

a bag for carrying mail.

a bag or case of leather, used by soldiers to carry ammunition.

something shaped like or resembling a bag or pocket.

Chiefly Scot. a pocket in a garment.

a baggy fold of flesh under the eye.

Anatomy, Zoology. a baglike or pocketlike part; a sac or cyst, as the sac beneath the bill of pelicans, the saclike dilation of the cheeks of gophers, or the receptacle for the young of marsupials.

Botany. a baglike cavity.

verb (used with object)

to put into or enclose in a pouch, bag, or pocket; pocket.

to arrange in the form of a pouch.

(of a fish or bird) to swallow.

verb (used without object)

to form a pouch or a cavity resembling a pouch.

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Origin of pouch

1350–1400; Middle English pouche<Anglo-French, variant of Old French poche; also poke, poque bag. See poke²

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How to use pouch in a sentence

Even when caught with 100 pouches of tobacco the infractions are minor.
With Cigarettes Banned In Most Prisons, Gangs Shift From Drugs To Smokes|Seth Ferranti|June 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Once the tobacco is on the compound, the pouches wholesale for 50 books of stamps, or $300 each.
With Cigarettes Banned In Most Prisons, Gangs Shift From Drugs To Smokes|Seth Ferranti|June 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST
“The kitchen warehouse clerk was paid $1,000 for every 100 pouches to receive and store the tobacco,” the prisoner says.
With Cigarettes Banned In Most Prisons, Gangs Shift From Drugs To Smokes|Seth Ferranti|June 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST
They were little foil pouches filled with vegetables and usually chicken or steak.
5 Recipes from Art Smith|Cookstr.com|January 5, 2010|DAILY BEAST

The General would not allow the little black pouches hitherto worn on the belt by officers.
The British Expedition to the Crimea|William Howard Russell
The second is the having pouches on each side of the jaw, in which the animal can store its food.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
The mandrill has pouches on the sides of his cheeks, and callosities on his posteriors.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
The ouanderou has pouches on each side of his cheeks, and callosities upon his posteriors.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
The macaque has pouches on each side of his cheeks, and callosities on his posteriors.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

British Dictionary definitions for pouch

pouch

/ (paʊtʃ) /

noun

a small flexible baglike containera tobacco pouch

a saclike structure in any of various animals, such as the abdominal receptacle marsupium in marsupials or the cheek fold in rodents

anatomy any sac, pocket, or pouchlike cavity or space in an organ or part

another word for mailbag

a Scot word for pocket

verb

(tr) to place in or as if in a pouch

to arrange or become arranged in a pouchlike form

(tr) (of certain birds and fishes) to swallow

Derived forms of pouch

pouchy, adjective

Word Origin for pouch

C14: from Old Norman French pouche, from Old French poche bag; see poke ²

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