pouch

[pouch]

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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Examples from the Web for pouches

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
So he acts as guide, and, after a decent interval, finds the horses and pouches his reward.
Through the Heart of Patagonia|H. Hesketh Prichard

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
Peripodal cavities: pouches in the embryo in which the rudiments of the future legs and wings are developed.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology|John. B. Smith
The moustac 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
I have seen bridesmaids with their gathers under their arms, and with pouches down to their knees.
The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker|John Strange Winter

British Dictionary definitions for pouches

pouch

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 Formspouchy, adjective

Word Origin for pouch

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

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Word Origin and History for pouches

pouch

early 14c., "bag for carrying things," especially (late 14c.) "small bag in which money is carried," from Anglo-French puche, Old North French pouche (13c.), Old French poche "purse, poke," all from a Germanic source (cf. Old English pocca "bag;" see poke (n.1)). Extended to cavities in animal bodies from c.1400.

Medicine definitions for pouches

pouch

[pouch]

n.

A pocketlike space in the body.

pouch

noun

verb (used with object)

verb (used without object)

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