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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Pocket

Pŏck'et, n.

noun

n. [Diminutive of poke, a pocket. Cf. Prov. & O. Fr. poque, pouque, diminutive poquette, for poche, pochette, from A.-S. pocca, Icel. poki, L. Lat. pochia. See POKE, and cf. POACH, v. t., and POUCH.]

Sense 1. Any small bag; especially, (a.) A small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles.

Confess, then, you picked my pocket. Shak.

(b.) A small bag, or net, to receive the balls in billiards.

Sense 2. A large bag for holding various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, and the like. Simmonds.

☞ In the wool or hop trade, the pocket contains half a sack, or about 168 lbs.; but it is a variable quantity, the articles being sold by actual weight. Simmonds.

Sense 3. (Mining.) A small cavity in a rock, or in the surface of a rock, containing gold.

☞ Pocket is often used in the formation of compound words denoting that which pertains to, or is carried in, a pocket, &c., and usually of very obvious signification; as, pocket-comb, pocket-compass, pocket-edition, pocket-handkerchief, pocket-money, pocket-picker, pocket-picking, pocket-volume, and the like.

Pŏck'et, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. POCKETED; p. pr. & vb. n. POCKETING.]

Sense 1. To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket a penknife.

Sense 2. To take clandestinely.

To pocket an insult or affront, and the like, to receive it without resenting it, or at least without seeking redress. “I must pocket up these wrongs.” Shak.