Word Definition

Pouch

  1. To put or take into a pouch.
  2. A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
  3. A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.
  4. A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.
  5. A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.
  6. To pout.
  7. To pocket; to put up with.
  8. A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.
  9. To swallow; -- said of fowls.
  10. That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch
  11. A cyst or sac containing fluid.

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