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Webster 1913 Edition
Pock′et
(pŏk′ĕt)
, Noun.
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.
☞ 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.)
(a)
A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
(b)
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.
(Zool.)
Same as
Pouch
. ☞ 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.
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
, p
rep.
Pocket borough
, a borough “owned” by some person.
See under Borough
. [Eng.]
– Pocket gopher
(Zool.)
, any one of several species of American rodents of the genera
– Geomys
, and Thomomys
, family Geomydæ
. 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
(Zool.)
, any species of American mice of the family
– Saccomyidæ
. 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.
Pock′et
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Pocketed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pocketing
.] 1.
To put, or conceal, in the pocket;
as, to
. pocket
the changeHe 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
POCK'ET
, n.1.
A small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles.2.
A small bag or net to receive the balls in billiards.3.
A certain quantity; as a pocket of hops, as in other cases we use sack. [Not used in America.]POCK'ET
,Verb.
T.
1.
To take clandestinely.To pocket an insult or affront, to receive it without resenting it, or at least without seeking redress. [In popular use.]