Definition of Pouch

  • (n.) A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.
  • (n.) That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch
  • (n.) A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.
  • (n.) A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.
  • (n.) A cyst or sac containing fluid.
  • (n.) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
  • (n.) A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.
  • (v. t.) To put or take into a pouch.
  • (v. t.) To swallow; -- said of fowls.
  • (v. t.) To pout.
  • (v. t.) To pocket; to put up with.

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