Pouch
Pouch , noun
[French poche a pocket, pouch, bag; probably of Teutonic origin. See Poke a bag, and compare 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.
(Zoology) That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch
(a)
(Zoology) A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.
(b)
(Zoology) A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.
(c)
(Zoology) A cyst or sac containing fluid.
(d)
(Zoology) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
(e)
(Zoology) A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting. — S. Sharp
Collocations (1)
Pouch mouth , a mouth with blubbered or swollen lips.
Pouch , transitive verb
1.
To put or take into a pouch.
2.
To swallow; -- said of fowls. — Derham
3.
To pout. [Obsolete] — Ainsworth
4.
To pocket; to put up with. [Rare] — Sir W. Scott