pouch : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pouch	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for pouch
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pouch n a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air" Synonym(s): pouch, sac, sack, pocket (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican) Synonym(s): pouch, pocket v put into a small bag send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels swell or protrude outwards; "His stomach bulged after the huge meal" Synonym(s): bulge, pouch, protrude
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pouch \Pouch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pouched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pouching}.] 1. To put or take into a pouch. 2. To swallow; -- said of fowls. --Derham. 3. To pout. [Obs.] --Ainsworth. 4. To pocket; to put up with. [R.] --Sir W. Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pouch \Pouch\, n. [F. poche a pocket, pouch, bag; probably of Teutonic origin. See {Poke} a bag, and cf. {Poach} to cook eggs, to plunder.] 1. A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc. 2. That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch; as: (a) A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule. (b) (Zo[94]l.) A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials. (c) (Med.) A cyst or sac containing fluid. --S. Sharp. (d) (Bot.) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse. (e) A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting. {Pouch mouth}, a mouth with blubbered or swollen lips.